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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. (Dwight David Eisenhower) Everyone has a place or sound that says “peace” to them. Peace can be the sound of a house after all the kids have gone to bed or the silence of new snowfall. Peace can be the plaintive whistle of a far away train, or a song, a place in the mountains, or by the ocean or in the woods, or the last gunfire of a war. It can be the ticking of a clock in a quiet house or crawling into bed after a hectic day and the sheets are clean and fresh; it all says and feels peace. It can also be the sound on November 8th and the news saying “the Democrats control both the House and Senate and Donald Rumsfeld has left the building. Any of these experiences will leave you with a sense of peace for a few moments, a night or several days. Now what? The Democrats have taken both the House and Senate (kind of, it’s hard to count Joe Lieberman and not all races have been determined) Rumsfeld is gone, he’s off to some never never land where all is going well in Iraq. Daddy and his Technocrat friends have raced in to help George Jr. out of the god awful mess into which he has landed. This will be very interesting, because if the neo-cons have seen their day, the technocrats have also seen theirs. I think daddy’s friends will have their hands full. A technocrat can be an individual who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion. This definition is usually applied to political decision makers who use this method to guide their actions. Technocrat (derogatory), a derogatory term used to describe a person with technical skills who doesn't always consider all possible consequences of their use (Wikipedia) The secret machinations so evident the week leading up to the elections were in obvious play with the “support” and then immediate “dismissal” of Donald Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 5:40pm, Chicago, Ill. (Saturn has just passed a Conjunction to his Jupiter and coming to a square with his Chiron) In Rummy’s Minor Progressed Chart Venus and the Sun were squared by Uranus (Venus rules his natal MC his career) he did not see this coming and Cheney certainly didn’t expect his old friend to be unceremoniously dumped. The DOD Chair wasn’t even cold before Mr. Gates was setting up his filing so someone behind the scenes had George’s agenda for the next two years picked out. I would say those “someone’s” were Daddy’s friends. Perhaps if Cheney and Rumsfeld had worked in the CIA like Poppy and Gates they would have known their little run was about over or at least picked up some clues. Now we have to listen to everyone’s fears that a WOMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO is going to be Speaker of the House. OMG what horror might befall this country with a WOMAN in charge? And a liberal to boot. No one has been able to explain to me why there is a fear of liberals, what do they think “liberals” might do? They might do away with the torture prisons, they might balance the budget, they might give us Habeas Corpus back, they might straighten out the mess of this last administration. There are more women than ever in Congress and the Senate. That’s the real fear I think, “women” are creeping up into power and the next thing you know they will want equal pay for equal work. I think that’s the deep seeded primitive fear. After all, Nancy Pelosi has threatened to use her “mom” voice. Beyond that, you will find her to initially take a hard line with the Democrats in the House, and that won’t be an easy task as she has a multi-generational group she must communicate with and supervise. Just as today’s corporations must face the challenges of a work force from the Seniors (born before WWII) the Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y (Or the Millennials) so must the House and to a certain extent the Senate. Each of these groups has a different focus on what should be done, a different work ethic, a different approach to accomplishment, different values, a different idea of hierarchical power. To add to the convolution of all that, the Senate and House face new people coming who seemingly possess real authenticity; Jon Tester, McCaskill, Whitehouse, they will not be so impressed with a Chuck Schumer trying to placate a Joe Lieberman, especially since both men left their authenticity at the door a long time ago. The pundits are trying to spin this as a “fluke,” a detour if you will on the way to a complete “liberal” fall in two years. I don’t think so, and I don’t think it’s a move to the center. I think we are in the midst of a shift toward something new, eventually a new party, a new way of doing things and a new expectation of the way this government conducts business and we aren’t there yet and the Democrats will need to be on their toes. All the damage that’s been done in the last six years cannot be undone in two and the GOP will hang on to try and hang the liberals or centrists or progressives or whatever they are calling themselves now. Transiting Pluto and Solar Arc Jupiter has been in an inconjunct pattern to the US Mercury, unearthing scandal after scandal (thank you blogs) and Solar Arc Jupiter is still there, plus Progressed US Mercury is moving toward a conjunction to SA Jupiter. That aspect brings about the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The challenge for us, the people, is not to become so discouraged that we give up on our ideals for a Democracy. For now, we have shifted into a period of history that has nothing to do with GWB and his neo-con friends, and it has everything to do with the Bush family agenda. Those horses James Baker III and George Bush Sr. rode in on aren’t white, but they have the money, connections and Carlyle Group behind them and we have been moved to phase two of the re-making of America. Not to worry, as the energy changes for us down the road, it changes for everyone.
Sally Cheyne McDonald on Nov 13 | Link
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"[A]s the energy changes for us down the road, it changes for everyone." Lovely! Posted by: M. on November 13, 2006 04:14 AMSally, thanks for the new article, you are a wise nightowl. "because if the neo-cons have seen their day, the technocrats have also seen theirs. I think daddy’s friends will have their hands full. Sr. made some serious mistakes as President and wasn't all that good, kind of like Ford, two left feet. His son has set the standard so low that sr's groupie now looks good. It is always about the money and power, how to get it and how to keep it and that includes the neo-cons. They are already taking a dip to the left end of the pool, at least MSNBC, and CNN. ABC and CBS are too it's just that it's been so long since they swam with the dolphins they are a little slow. Clear Channel has already been dipping to the left for about two years and support progressive radio in some parts of the country. It will be awhile before the FCC rules are changed back to "fair and balanced" but eventually they will change. Everything is going to take time and priorities have to be set. Two years will not be enough, they've got to hang on through the 2008 election. The people just have to keep reminding them that we are out here and we are watching and obfuscation, lies, and general BS will not be tolerated. We have to keep their feet to the fire, both parties. Posted by: Sally on November 13, 2006 05:43 AMPoppy Bush certainly represents an old, "back-door" element of this country's politics and economics that must eventually be exposed for what it is, and be swept away. I agree with Sally that his time and that of his technocrats -- Baker, Scowcroft, Gates, et. al. is drawing to a close. The Bushes themselves will inevitably become another relic of history, one generating few if any fond or meaningful recollections. Glimpsing at upcoming transits over the next few decades, I cannot help but see an overall increasingly progressive trend in our politics, with barries to change breaking down or dissolving away, all by necessity. The best way I can put it is that we have been ignoring our collective well-being and that of our planet for a long time. It's a responsibility that we will no longer be able to run away from and act as if nothing is happening. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 13, 2006 06:31 AMI believe this gaggle of mad, savage old troglodytes (Bush Sr., Baker etc) all of which have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel will eventually have to admit they are just to darned old and tired to clean up "Baby Bushes BIG Mess". This endeavor might be the figurative and literal stake in their evil hearts ~ One can only hope. Posted by: Starrynights/SN on November 13, 2006 07:36 AMMy favorite part of this article is this: "I think we are in the midst of a shift toward something new, eventually a new party, a new way of doing things and a new expectation of the way this government conducts business"... Here's another expression of it by astrologer Tim Stephens of astral reflections: For all signs, this December and 2007 represent a culmination of the past 12 years - for most, a lucky, expansive culmination that can solve a decade-long problem, or finally put a decade-long effort over the top and lead it to success. Whatever has been most mysterious to us during the past 12 years, will now admit us to its secrets and shine a light on them. Many books will be published on the subconscious, fate, and physics. Large new sources of oil will be found. A new political manifesto will be announced, and be embodied by a nation's new government by 2008: soon (2008-2024) it will spread to alter or undermine governments around the world.
Tremendo, Sally. All the chatter out there reflects the notion of an entirely new direction, maybe a new party(s, a shift of consciousness. It seems the staid way of thinking keeps coming from the generation preceeding the boomers. I hear some old codgers repeating verbatim what they hear from their fellow veteran friends. When you ask them to qualify their shallow statements, they can't so they turn to huff and bluff -- something Rumsfeld had down to an art. :) Posted by: karen on November 13, 2006 01:58 PMYes, yes Sally, the tsunamii wave of feminine energy (inclusiveness as in a circle, not the heirarchal pyramid of 'over') has been here for a while. Some are just awakening. This is not new. The new book I sold is based on this new wave of energy. I wrote this book 1 1/2 years ago. It's been in the conciousness for quite a while. The election on the day of the Sun /Mercury combust set it into the public eye. I stopped believing in polls. They are BS and run by BS artists.
She said she would vote for Bolton. Matthews What finally moved me to tears of relief (and postponed grief, because now it was safe to grieve) as the election results were settling in was hearing the old Billy Jack song, One Tin Soldier. Oh, the hope and belief of those years! Now it might even be actually happening. The lyrics are applicable today for the theocracy that hopefully has just been routed. And if you're old enough, I dare you to get the tune out of your head. From August, 1972: (As recorded by Coven) Listen children to a story that was written long ago Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend So the people of the valley sent a message up the hill Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend Now the valley cried with anger, mount your horses, draw your sword Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend Do we need to worry about the other Bush boys? In January, Jeb will no longer be Florida governor. Neil's been raking in cash with Ignite, while dumbing-down education. And then there's the next generation with George P. And what of the Bush women, Barbara the evil breeder will surely keep pushing her brood. Certainly, hope these are our last 25 months of Bush whacked politics. May the goddesses of good prevail. Posted by: Connie on November 13, 2006 03:20 PMSally, this article really lifted my spirits! Thank you so much! "Those horses James Baker III and George Bush Sr. rode in on aren’t white, but they have the money, connections and Carlyle Group behind them and we have been moved to phase two of the re-making of America. Not to worry, as the energy changes for us down the road, it changes for everyone." Now to correct the FCC to make it an honest broker! Posted by: Pat C on November 13, 2006 03:22 PMbhakti, Poll takers are indeed just another tool. I think people are catching on. Posted by: Pat C on November 13, 2006 03:26 PMAgain, I will bring up that Rummy resigned under the 29 Gemini moon. An anaertic degree which means in your opinion? Anyone?
HARTFORD, Conn. --Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday repeated his pledge to caucus with Senate Democrats when the 110th Congress convenes in January, but refused to slam the door on possibly moving to the Republican side of the aisle. Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" if he might follow the example of Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, who left the Republicans in 2001 and became an independent, ending Republican control of the U.S. Senate, Lieberman refused to discount the possibility. "I'm not ruling it out but I hope I don't get to that point," he said. "And I must say -- and with all respect to the Republicans who supported me in Connecticut -- nobody ever said, 'We're doing this because we want you to switch over. We want you to do what you think is right and good for our state and country,' and I appreciate that." A spokeswoman for Lieberman would not elaborate when contacted by The Associated Press. Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont defeated Lieberman in the Democratic primary in August. Lieberman was elected to a fourth term last Tuesday as an independent, and said Sunday his political affiliation will be as an "Independent Democrat." The Democrats won control of the Senate with 51 seats. Lieberman and newly elected Bernie Sanders of Vermont are the Senate's only Independents. A switch to the Republicans would bring the Senate to a 50-50 division, giving Republican Vice President Dick Cheney opportunities to break tie votes. Jeffords' decision to quit the GOP and become an independent tipped the balance of an evenly divided Senate, handing control to the Democrats with a one-vote margin. So,bhakti, what was your book? I have been around for about a year now, I think, so I don't have all the references down. OT clymela, By then, if all spying laws etc do not throw me in a gulag for being an author and artist I might get less shy and tell you all who I am. But for now, no. That's because I get too many interested people who project onto me with some 'story' they have written with hopes to be published. I can hardly get myself published these days. It took a decade to sell something I wrote while illustrating for other authors. After being plagerized by a colleague of mine for 20 years (who blamed me when I outted her to her editor), who I have taught for using the plagerized book, I decided to be even more covert. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/11/12/MNGV9MB4681.DTL Must read on Olberman Posted by: Pat C on November 13, 2006 08:29 PMhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Fake_anthrax_hoax_by_conservative_blogger_1113.html "Anthrax hoaxer may be Free Republic poster" ....no surprise there. Posted by: Pat C on November 13, 2006 09:02 PMKaren, Food for thought - this fact has been strangely or Diebold's new (IMHO) disinformation: http://www.diebold.com/news/newsdisp.asp?id=3288 »Diebold Voting Systems Used Successfully in Many Parts of the Nation - 11/13/06 http://www6.diebold.com/dieboldes/ »Point by Point Factual Response To HBO Documentary - 11/3/06 »HBO Documentary Riddled With Errors and Slipshod Reporting - 10/31/06 »Diebold Election Systems Asks HBO for Pre-Buttal and Disclaimer - 10/30/06 Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 12:01 AMhttp://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20061113&hn=38216 Chinese Submarine Stalks US Aircraft Carrier Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 12:32 AMhttp://www.washtimes.com/national/20061113-121539-3317r.htm The Kitty Hawk and several other warships were deployed in ocean waters near Okinawa at the time, as part of a routine fall deployment program. The officials said Chinese submarines rarely have operated in deep water far from Chinese shores or shadowed U.S. vessels. Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 12:35 AMGreat article Sally - as always! All Hail Keith MSNBC learned once that if you put someone on to the left of everyone else on the teevee you might actually get some viewers. Then they fired him. Dan Abrams' predecessor was wedded to the idea that CNN was for Democrats, Fox was for Conservatives, and therefore MSNBC's target audience was moderate Republicans. All 5 of them. Hopefully Abrams is a bit smarter than that: Suddenly, everyone wants Olbermann. Last week, he and political veteran Chris Matthews teamed up to anchor MSNBC's midterm election coverage. The result? Abrams called it "a major turning point for this network.'' Ratings were up across the board and the coveted 25-to-54 age demographic increased 111 percent from the 2002 midterm election. What's next? Expect to see Olbermann in even more mainstream settings. The one thing he is resisting, however, is pressure to produce more "Special Comments.'' He has to feel them, he says. "Otherwise I will turn into a cartoon of myself.'' Certainly it is the passion that carries the day. As Abrams says, "Keith isn't faking this, and the viewers can see that.'' -Atrios 3:07 PM http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/13/bullies/ Bye-bye, bullies! From Allen to Santorum, Rummy to Rush, last week's big losers personified a GOP culture of scorn and intimidation rejected by voters. Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 01:15 AMahhhhhhh yesssss rest Sally, what beautiful writing! And what a wonderful description of peace.... Dedacherry, your expressive post,too. Thank you, bbuster, for listing the Billy Jack song --- those were days when the heart ruled, then the "hippies" all went main stream and materialistic (myself included). Remember when the Quaker woman who ran the school (Delores?) was raped and she refused to hate? While fire and stimulation also play their part in the mix, peace is such a wonderful place to be. "Everyone has a place or sound that says “peace” to them. Peace can be the sound of a house after all the kids have gone to bed or the silence of new snowfall. Peace can be the plaintive whistle of a far away train, or a song, a place in the mountains, or by the ocean or in the woods, or the last gunfire of a war. It can be the ticking of a clock in a quiet house or crawling into bed after a hectic day and the sheets are clean and fresh; it all says and feels peace. It can also be the sound on November 8th and the news saying “the Democrats control both the House and Senate and Donald Rumsfeld has left the building. Any of these experiences will leave you with a sense of peace for a few moments, a night or several days." Posted by: Sharon on November 14, 2006 01:54 AMRe the "Billy Jack" song, what a poignant storyline. Sounds like it could be part of one of Bhakti's stories (with the violence cleaned up). I love this line: Turned the stone and looked beneath it "Peace on earth" was all it said. Thanks for the link re Keith, abilene. Watching him tonight, he was positively giddy. I'll bet it's b/c he was proven to be right now that the election is over. People listened to him. Wow, check this out, Joe LIEbermann is more popular/powerful than we thought--to the point of two different opponents receiving exactly the same number of votes when running against him, via Brad Blog-- http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D3778 PS: I'd wager the odds of this occurring without tampering would be astronomical, at the very least..... Posted by: Garry on November 14, 2006 02:38 AMComment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commission improbable
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1947003,00.html Speaking of the older generation, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was profiled in the SF paper today....on WHY he became a pacifist. It is fascinating and chilling. A He is carrying his head A woman runs after him The bombs keep falling Not the same two people All running And for every bomb that's dropped Like dragon's teeth sown As the smart bombs sowing hate Ah.....Ferlinghetti! He kept me safe when I was a child in NJ, then I visited his bookstore as an adult, and he shares my thoughts. I've been looking for something like this to share with you, Garry. This is what happened, I strongly suspect. I also suspect that Howard Dean's 50-state strategy made it impossible to manipulate so many elections, that the Dem turnout contributed to that, and that efforts were focused on very key races (Lieberman). I made the last post on the former blog. The link is there to see te rest of these altered nursery rhymes. All around the Dubya Bush, Funky Frilly Foley, As for certain generations getting old cootish, well....I think it is more that ignorance of life and love makes people cootish. Every generation will have them. Robert Gates is about 4 months younger than I am....but I'm sure a lot younger than HE is! Perhaps it is the soul work more than the generation. Pat QP....was learning about the life of Caravaggio this afternoon in Art History (Mannerism-Baroque Italian artists). Caravaggio was always one of my favorites, a totally sublime painter....and a total scoundrel. He was a fighter, had a police record, couldn't keep himself out of trouble, was painting for the homo-erotic crowd in Rome, and was beaten nearly senseless (gay bashing?) and it all cumulated in his murder of another man. The strange thing was is that as his life got more violent and crazy, his painting became quieter. He did an enormous amount of work (no TV to distract) and went in exile to many places, where he did more religious paintings. So he was well known and a scoundrel. A real jerk, and a really incredible painter. Go figure....but I say passion is what makes it work. Posted by: judiGem on November 14, 2006 03:36 AM* Ultimately, [necroporn]s Will Force bush/cheney Resignation http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_061113_ultimately_2c_republic.htm Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 14, 2006 04:33 AMDarn Joanna, the above link won't open, what was the article about? The 29th degree of a sign is called the Anaretic degree (the final degree or degree of fate) Those with these degrees cannot get enough of whatever they want, and can go to extremes. The 29 pisces would indicate to me an excess of suffering that just goes on and on. The 29 Gemini Moon could be an insatiable desire to meet, research, talk investigate until the cows come home with never a resolution as long as Gates is there. Posted by: Sally on November 14, 2006 07:22 AMTry again Sally. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_061113_ultimately_2c_republic.htm Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 12:20 PMPat, i've put my broad brush away. :) I'm an "old codger" myself, and i'll use it as my excuse for any offense. Posted by: karen on November 14, 2006 01:08 PMThanks Sally on the 29 degree info. The endless chatter, that cannot be good...or it could if they just keep talking and do not act out the demon mindset. Posted by: bhakti on November 14, 2006 01:39 PM Right wing mental/moral cripples http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/11/other-kind-of-terror.html Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 02:15 PMYou might want to press your new Congressmen/women and Senators of these issues. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060703fa_fact1 Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 02:40 PMI got it Pat C, terrific article and just could be the case. Wouldn't that be delicious. Bhakti "The endless chatter, that cannot be good...or it could if they just keep talking and do not act out the demon mindset," perfect, now that is inspired. Oh lord MORE BS out of Washington, whoever called politicians windbags or gasbags sure had it nailed. These people are delusional and need to be stopped..... "At a dinner addressed by the Israeli ambassador and the chairman of the Republican Party, Hagee read greetings from President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and dispatched the crowd with a message for their representatives in Congress. Tell them "to let Israel do their job" of destroying the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, Hagee said. He called the conflict "a battle between good and evil" and said support for Israel was "God's foreign policy." The next day he took the same message to the White House. Many conservative Christians believe that the president's support for Israel fulfills a biblical injunction to protect the Jewish state, which some of them think will play a pivotal role in the second coming. Many on the left, in turn, speculate with alarm that such theology may influence the administration's decision making toward Israel and the Middle East." http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/4332671.html Posted by: Cybear on November 14, 2006 03:10 PMIt would be spiritually FREEING Sally! ........ Karen, were you posting to me or Pat QOP? Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 03:12 PMTrue Blue Populists By PAUL KRUGMAN http://donkeyod.blogspot.com/2006/11/true-blue-populists-by-paul-krugman.html#links Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 04:21 PMhttp://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-rahm-emanuel-lost-house-for.html Paul Lukasiak has analyzed the 2006 Congressional election and concluded two things: (1) Rahm Emanuel lost the house for the Democrats. (2) ActBlue, MoveOn, Markos, Jane, Duncan, Howard Dean and a host of others saved the day. He provides the statistics to prove it. Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 04:32 PMPat QOP, Pat C. Please tell me that I didn't offend you too! Posted by: karen on November 14, 2006 04:51 PMKaren, no, I was just confused there. Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 05:44 PMyeah, for the time being ONLY some of the bullies http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,448290,00.html SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH IRAQ'S HEALTH MINISTER Iraq's health minister, Ali al-Shameri, 44, discusses the effects of the US elections on his country. Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 09:49 PMhttp://www.tomdispatch.com/ Links within text Klare, Bush Goes Over to Imperial Defense In September 2002, Arab League head Amr Mussa warned that an invasion of Iraq would “open the gates of Hell” in the Middle East. Four years later, with those gates—at least in Iraq—open wide enough to drive a tank through, the look of the Bush administration is suddenly in rapid flux. (The neocons, having ushered in Hell, are being ushered out the door; while the first President Bush’s “realists” and their followers are heading in.) Given the nominee to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the Gates of Hell may soon have a new meaning. Right now, despite all the anticipation about future Iraq policy changes, the good news that accompanies the nomination of former CIA Director (and, as president of Texas A&M, keeper of the Bush family flame) Robert Gates has little to do with Iraq and lots to do with Iran. More…. Posted by: Pat C on November 14, 2006 09:51 PMwow! this is wild. Do you think it might have actually happened. Kind of sounds like it. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=139093 http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?... Doubts about Murtha's ethics Shadowhawk posted this at starlightnews.com (Nancy's blog) - I'd be interested in your opinions. http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/64 Posted by: Sharon on November 14, 2006 10:47 PMNo karen, Jr's transits in January. From an article in the Oct/Nov MA. Transisting Neptune on the IC Will be over Bahgdad. Not looking too good. SOURCE: BradBlog.com DNC Sees Six Undecided U.S. House Elections Still to be 'Winnable', Planning Challenges Legal Resources Being Gathered by National Party to Challenge Close Elections Where Dems Currently Trail Other Candidates, Citing Concerns About Voting Machine Failures, Also Refusing to Concede Until All Votes Can Be Verified Just off the phone from a DNC insider who says the following races are being considered, as of this afternoon, to still be very much in play by the DNC (* = Incumbent): NC-8 Larry Kissel (D) / Robin Hayes (R)* The source believes that all of the above races, each of them currently very very close are winnable and the feeling is that they "could easily win three of those six." In each, the Democratic candidate is currently trailing as absentees, provisionals and paper ballots are still be canvassed. As well, challenges and recounts are underway in some of those races (we hope to have more detail shortly here on a couple of those races). Posted by: Pat C on November 15, 2006 12:22 AMhttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20061127/danto The Marlkboro Gallery brave enough to show these....... QOP Posted by: on November 15, 2006 02:58 AM Ten Reasons Congress Must Investigate Bush Administration Crimes Tuesday 14 November 2006 Few elections in history have provided so clear a mandate. As the New York Times put it, Democrats were "largely elected on the promise to act as a strong check on [Bush's] administration." (1) But the first response of the new Congressional leadership has been to proclaim a new era of civility and seek accommodation with the very people who need to be held accountable for war crimes and subversion of the Constitution. Democratic strategists who argue for this kind of bipartisanship maintain that the American people want their political leaders to address the problems of the future, not pursue recriminations about the past. They therefore oppose the kind of penetrating investigation that a White House strategist told Time would lead to a "cataclysmic fight to the death" (2) if Democrats start issuing subpoenas. If such "peace at any price" Democrats prevail, the result will be a catastrophe, not only for the Democratic party but for American democracy. Establishing accountability will require a thorough investigation of the actions of the Bush administration and, if they have included crimes or abuses, ensuring that these are properly addressed by Congress and the courts. The purpose of such action is not to play "gotcha" based on hearsay and newspaper clippings. Investigation, exposure, and even prosecution or select committee proceedings, should they become necessary, are primarily means for re-establishing the rule of law. But such investigations may be blocked by the Democratic leadership unless American citizens and progressive Democrats in particular demand them. Here are ten reasons why they should: more http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406L.shtml Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 15, 2006 03:13 AMThe Carlyle White House Tuesday 14 November 2006 It was bad enough when the Carlyle Group bought Dunkin' Donuts last year, forcing millions of conscientious caffeine addicts to look elsewhere for their daily fix. Now, it appears Carlyle has added 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to its formidable portfolio of acquisitions. The Carlyle Group achieved national attention in the early days of the Iraq occupation, especially after Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" exposed the firm's umbilical ties to the Bush family and the House of Saud. For the uninitiated, Carlyle is a privately-owned equity firm organized and run by former members of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. Currently, Carlyle manages more than $44 billion in 42 different investment funds, which is an interesting fact in and of itself: Carlyle could lay claim to only a meager $12 billion in funds in December of 2001. Thanks to their ownership of United Defense Industries, a major military contractor that sells a whole galaxy of weapons systems to the Pentagon, Carlyle's profits skyrocketed after the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Some notable present and former employees of Carlyle include former president George H.W. Bush, who resigned in 2003; James Baker III, Bush Sr.'s secretary of state and king fixer; and George W. Bush, who served on Carlyle's board of directors until his run for the Texas governorship. One notable former client of Carlyle was the Saudi BinLaden Group, which sold its investment back to the firm a month after the September 11 attacks. Until the October 2001 sellout, Osama bin Laden himself had a financial interest in the same firm that employed the two presidents Bush. How has Carlyle managed to acquire the White House? The newest edition of Newsweek begins to tell the tale in a story titled "The Rescue Squad": "Bush Senior has been relegated to watching all those political talk shows his son refuses to watch, wincing each time he hears his son's name being mocked or criticized. George H.W. Bush has been, in effect, sidelined by nepotism. He has repeatedly told close friends that he does not believe it is appropriate or wise to second-guess his son, or even offer advice beyond loving support. This time, however, was different. A source who declined to be identified discussing presidential confidences told NEWSWEEK that Bush 41 left 'fingerprints' on the Rumsfeld-Gates decision, though the father's exact role remains shrouded in speculation." more http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406R.shtml Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 15, 2006 03:14 AMWell Shadowhawk, Pat QOP, I don't give a damn whether that story you posted above at 10:39 is true or not, because it TOTALLY ROCKS!!! Although, it does have that certain air of "trutiness" about it. Oh to have been a giddy-with-laughter fly on the wall when the House of Bush consigliere JABIII laid the smack down on poor unwitting(unwitted?) Junior. Boy, this month is sure turning out to be one of the best, if not my total favorite out of the last 72 months.....which reminds me, I need to stock up on popcorn....hee hee hee haw haw HAW!!! namaste y'all Pat QOP, I don't give a damn whether that story you posted above at 10:39 is true or not, because it TOTALLY ROCKS!!! Although, it does have that certain air of "trutiness" about it. Oh to have been a giddy-with-laughter fly on the wall when the House of Bush consigliere JABIII laid the smack down on poor unwitting(unwitted?) Junior. Boy, this month is sure turning out to be one of the best, if not my total favorite out of the last 72 months.....which reminds me, I need to stock up on popcorn....hee hee hee haw haw HAW!!! namaste y'all Sorry for the double post y'all, it must be my Gemini rising.... Posted by: Garry on November 15, 2006 04:28 AMGarry, be sure to stock up on some Moon Pies, too. Posted by: shylurker on November 15, 2006 04:38 AMGarry, How disgustingly ironic. Satan Jr. being smacked down by Satan Sr. in the bowels of Burning Hell for playing with matches? Wow! George even screws up the Fires of Hell by misusing Fire! Posted by: lunaoscura on November 15, 2006 03:03 PM
By MAUREEN DOWD The foreign affairs fur is flying. I’m not talking about the catfight between two strong-willed, expensively dressed Democratic pols married to California gazillionaires, with Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi trying to yank Jane Harman from heading the House Intelligence Committee. I’m talking about the catfight between the Idealists and the Realists. After an election that spurned ideology, and the triumphant return of the Bush 41 pragmatists James Baker and Robert Gates, the self-proclaimed Idealists are reduced to hissing from the sidelines. The Vulcans and neocons had grandiose plans to restore trumpets, morality and spine to foreign policy, to establish America as a hyperpower with a duty to export democracy — by force and on its own, if necessary. But now the grandiose experiment of Iraq is in a sulfurous shambles, and the Realpolitik crowd is back cleaning up. http://select.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/opinion/15dowd.html?pagewanted=print Posted by: wv on November 15, 2006 03:58 PM
New reality for Bush - and Iraq http://www.smh.com.au/news/editorial/new-reality-for-bush--and-iraq/2006/11/10/1162661895635.html# Posted by: wv on November 15, 2006 04:06 PMTrent Lott is the new Minority Leader in the Senate. Posted by: Pat C on November 15, 2006 04:27 PMSally: The 29th degree of a sign is called the Anaretic degree (the final degree or degree of fate) Those with these degrees cannot get enough of whatever they want, and can go to extremes. The 29 pisces would indicate to me an excess of suffering that just goes on and on. The 29 Gemini Moon could be an insatiable desire to meet, research, talk investigate until the cows come home with never a resolution as long as Gates is there.
I have my moon at 29 Pisces and all least three of my personal planets at 29 Gemini. Now I understand why my life has been so miserable. Whenever I meet someone with whom I have a mutual attraction there is never a resolution and I have the most difficult time finishing projects. I always seem to lose interest in them although I begin them with great enthusiasm. I guess I can thank my Taurus sun that I am still alive. Posted by: Roderick on November 15, 2006 04:30 PM
By E&P Staff Published: November 15, 2006 11:05 AM ET NEW YORK After a whirlwind political campaign and press tour riding a bestselling book, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois now trails Sen. Hillary Clinton by only 12% among Democratic voters (and Democratic-leaning independents) as their choice for president in 2008, in a new Gallup poll. On the GOP side, Sen. John McCain surprisingly trails former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani by 2%. The poll was conducted Nov. 9-12. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003408008 Posted by: wv on November 15, 2006 04:35 PMLest ye forget... http://home.valornet.com/sabruf2/countchr.html Posted by: wv on November 15, 2006 04:39 PMThe Partner Trap--To quell your critics, make them your partners. As Washington waits with bated bipartisan breath to unwrap the shiny Christmas present known as "the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group," it becomes more and more obvious that the newly empowered Democrats are walking into a trap. No, the trap awaiting the Democrats has been laid by reality itself. As so often noted here before, there is no good solution to the blood-puking hell that George W. Bush has wrought in Iraq. There is no path out of this killing field that won't involve more slaughter, more suffering, more hate, more grief. No "bipartisan panel" – certainly not one led by the lifelong peddler of Bush Family snake oil, Jim Baker, and the Democratic whitewasher for all seasons, Lee Hamilton – is going to find some new, unlooked-for way to untangle this knotted gut. They can only sift through the same reality that we all can see. The options are extremely limited, and all of them have ugly consequences. So, what's going to happen is this: Baker will recommend the status quo with minor variations, which will be hyped as dramatic revisions. Bush will announce that he completely accepts every jot and tittle of the Baker formula. What then? Bush has already signalled that, understandably enough, he now wants a bipartisan approach to the country's problems. As soon as the Baker report is on his desk, he will call in the leaders of both houses of Congress for a chat. http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/214/32/ Posted by: Pat C on November 15, 2006 04:45 PMRoderick, these degrees in the hands of an individual operate much differently than in the hands of the collective (such as war or Gates response to this collective administration, countries, daddy bush etc.) In the hands of an individual, a need for say endless suffering is the finest of DR's, or nurses or health care workers or people working with the poor, homeless handicapped etc. The "endless" research of the Gemini is the person who never gives up until he finds an answer, or never gets discouraged if he doesn't find the answer. I guess I haven't done a very good job of educating people on this site as to the difference in aspects and how they work coming from the collective vs. the individual. Hope this helps Roderick, in an individual difficult aspects can turn into positives, not so easy with the collective where you are dealing with unconscious impulses multiplied by thousands. Posted by: Sally on November 15, 2006 05:02 PMWhite House seeks dismissal of CIA leak suit Reuters Wednesday, November 15, 2006 The Bush administration asked a federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband against Vice President Dick Cheney and others for alleged involvement in disclosing her employment as a clandestine CIA operative. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/151106dismissal.htm Posted by: Pat C on November 15, 2006 05:23 PMA fairly indepth article about the charges being pressed in Germany over torture. Attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a war crimes lawsuit today in Germany against outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and other high-ranking U.S. officials, for their role in the torture of prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo. We go to Berlin to speak with CCR president Michael Ratner. [includes rush transcript] more http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=63252 Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 15, 2006 05:48 PMThere are absolutely no coincidences. Every crisis, situation or circumstance is carefully planned and orchestrated. "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet it was planned that way." — Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd US President A fascinating statement and this article is even more revealing. BTW - the Dubai Port deal is still active in this country. They quietly have stayed in control of our ports despite the 'outcry'. Business as usual Deanna Spingola
By all available evidence, the hard-won representative form of government has gradually, surreptitiously been eliminated. Honest, patriotic statesmen willing to sacrifice and serve the Republic have been replaced by the privileged elite — professional power-hungry lying politicians motivated by self enrichment and an elevated idea of their self-perceived worth. Their super exclusive ego trips are entirely at the constituent's expense. Even the sincere newly elected are often quickly seduced by the sophistry of wealthy globalists and the very deep pockets of big banks, big business and highly paid lobbyists (former congressmen). Big government provides them with eminent, unwarranted power, the best taxpayer provided pensions, security, perks and health care while producing progressive amnesia regarding their noble sounding campaign rhetoric. After the elections the populace can get back to reality TV and the politicians can proceed to carry out treason without culpability or accountability. more http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/060304 I like that Sally. The aspects on a dualistic level of 'individual vs collective'. Since we live in a dualistic plane it makes perfect sense. Roderick, I know someone with 29 Pisces Sun. During the time we hung out I could tell he set up his own suffering. He treated life as if it was a rehearsal and not the real show. This is not about your dynamics, but another with Sun 29 Pisces which is fixed star Sheat. As Sally says, there is duality and the stars are but a map. We can forge another path through our individual free beingness. Here's a site about the fixed stars: Here's a good article that sheds some light on the recent election: http://www.daykeeperjournal.com/alex3.shtml It is called: __ELECTION 2006'S BLUE WAVE: THE BLACK HOLE COMES THROUGH___ Posted by: Hunab Coo Coo on November 15, 2006 06:59 PMThe Carlyle Group by Victor Thorn, Babel Magazine, Issue #77, 6 October 2002
A few weeks ago, James Baker publicly offered advice to the Bush Administration on how they should proceed with their war on Iraq. What he and every newscaster or commentator failed to mention was that Baker is now employed by the highly-influential Carlyle Group, which is the eleventh largest defense contractor in the United States. In essence, then, we have a man trying to influence public policy while privately employed by a company that has a vested interest in activating America's War Machine. If you're not familiar with them, the Carlyle Group has become a powerhouse in affecting the direction in which our foreign policy takes, especially in regard to war. They accomplish this by hiring former government officials, then investing in private companies that are subject to government change (i.e. the military and telecommunications). Who, you may ask, do they employ to secure their government contracts? Well, check-out this list for starters: more http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/CarlyleGroup.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 15, 2006 07:27 PMA WONDERFUL quote!! Had to share it. When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. --J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known, pp.51-52 Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 15, 2006 07:31 PMA fun article about a serious subject - money. Enjoy A Layman's Guide to: 'Who Really Controls The Money?' There's been much written about how the world money supply is being run by secret societies of the occult; strange people hidden in the shadows from the pubic eye only to appear once every few decades in clandestine encampments to decide the fate of empires; to discuss the fortunes of money and to roast marshmallows and weenies. more http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers61.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 15, 2006 07:48 PMyou haven't seen nothing yet of the knuclehead,chuney's troubles; they are just beginning and investigation results will prove to be dooooozy in 2007.Just watch when the real truth Guess I shouldn't have so much free time on my hands today since I'm finding a wealth of goodies on the internet. Family Feud: Little Bush Hits Back at Daddy By Chris Floyd 11/15/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- When I saw the Newsweek cover featuring Big Daddy Bush muscling toward the front with a diminished little Dubya skulking in the background, my first thought was: How is Junior going to react to this? Bush II's resentment toward his father is well-known -- a resentment no doubt compounded by his lifelong, abject dependence on Daddy's financial and political pull -- and I knew that Little Bush would not simply accept this media humiliation and move on. Because for all his vaunted (and totally mendacious) "unconcern" with opinion polls and popularity ("Ah just do whut muh gut tells me is right"), Little Bush is actually one of the most vain and insecure men ever to sit in the White House; only Nixon can match him in this regard. Why else would he need to have his authority bolstered in such ludicrous ways -- such as all those little "Commander-in-Chief" and "President of the United States" tags embossed onto his fancy quasi-military jackets and his running gear and belt-buckles and boots -- and probably his toilet paper as well? At every turn, he feels the anxious need to remind others, and himself, that he really is the president, he's the decider, he's the commander: "See, it says so right here on muh jacket!" (Meanwhile, the exaggerated swagger he affects -- a labored caricature of stereotypical masculinity -- bespeaks other sorts of insecurities prowling in the presidential psyche, but we won't go into that here.) more http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15620.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 15, 2006 08:54 PMGreat finds Shadowhawk! Posted by: Pat C on November 15, 2006 09:10 PMhttp://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/15/bush-leahy-controversial-nominees/ Bush To Usher In New Era Of ‘Bipartisanship’ By Renominating Controversial Judicial Nominees Yesterday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) noted that President Bush plans to renominate several of his rejected judicial nominees: >In the days following the election, the President spoke about becoming a uniter and working with Congress in a bipartisan way. Regrettably, it appears he will not be keeping that promise. I understand the President intends to renominate a number of controversial nominees. That unfortunate decision evidences that he intends to stay the partisan course when it comes to judicial nominations. More… Posted by: Pat C on November 15, 2006 09:23 PMShadowhawk, the Krishnamurti quote defines me....since I was old enough to say no to the Presbyterians! hahahahah....seriously, Krisnamurti was a big influence on me. Posted by: judigem on November 16, 2006 01:16 AMJoan Baez & associates also promoted the idea of no nationalism (as did John Lennon!) Posted by: Sharon on November 16, 2006 01:51 AMI'm just sitting home knitting and listening to NPR, and John Edwards is being interviewed by some guy guest-hosting Fresh Air. He is saying things like "Some politicians think the public should just get pablum; I think we're better than that, and citizens deserve to be told the truth." Despite everything the commentators try in order to spin every progressive voice on the radio, it sounds like the truth just keeps on getting out there. No shrillness, no hyperbole, just solid conviction and a burgeoning respect for the "common folk" - it certainly does feel like something is dawning! You can no doubt hear this interview on your local station, or get to at at pbs.com/freshair Posted by: Baraka on November 16, 2006 03:27 AM
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The neocons' last stand
Sidney Blumenthal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1948667,00.html Posted by: wv on November 16, 2006 03:30 AM
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- America faces a future of managing imperial decline
Martin Jacques
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1948666,00.html Posted by: wv on November 16, 2006 03:36 AM
By By Robert Fisk The UN troops claim they are in Lebanon to protect the Shia. The Shia think they're there to protect Israel from Hizbollah. Is this because the peacekeepers are really a Nato army in disguise? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15625.htm === By Scott Ritter The political astuteness of the decision by President Bush to replace Rumsfeld with Gates has escaped notice by many Democrats, who seem inclined simply to gloat over the demise of their archenemy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15623.htm == By Chris Floyd Little Bush's suddenly conceived internal Iraq policy review is just another salvo in this ongoing struggle. The Cheney militarists will certainly not give up without a fight, even after the "Gray Hawk Down" disaster of Rumsfeld's resignation. Bush Junior will certainly not keep swallowing Daddy's cod liver oil without throwing a fit now and then. ===
Exposed: The reality of U.S. occupation Of Iraq This Is A Must Watch - Channel 4 Video Investigation This shocking film investigates the links between the death squads and high-ranking Shia politicians. It reveals how the Shia militia that these politicians control have systematically infiltrated and taken over police units and even entire government ministeries. It investigates how these units are closely linked to the death squads, indeed they often are the death squads. And the killers act with impunity -- there's little investigation into their activities. Click to view http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15615.htm Posted by: wv on November 16, 2006 03:45 AM
By Sibel Edmonds 11/15/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- In his farewell address in 1796, George Washington warned that America must be constantly awake against "the insidious wiles of foreign influencesince history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government." Today, foreign influence, that most baneful foe of our republican government, has its tentacles entrenched in almost all major decision making and policy producing bodies of the U.S. government machine. It does so not secretly, since its self-serving activities are advocated and legitimized by highly positioned parties that reap the benefits that come in the form of financial gain and positions of power. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15621.htm wsv, Bush gives go-ahead for building 'Bush Center' in Israel http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/788889.html oops.....wv! US plans last big push in Iraq
President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make "a last big push" to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning a troop withdrawal next year, he may increase US forces by up to 20,000 soldiers, according to sources familiar with the administration's internal deliberations. more http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1948748,00.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 16, 2006 04:19 AMI, too have followed the Krishnamurti quote my whole life, without ever having heard of it, lol. I've always found it impossible to define myself, and have a real hard time when others try to do it for me! Posted by: Peg on November 16, 2006 01:28 PMChiming in in complete agreement. Posted by: Pat C on November 16, 2006 01:55 PMNorman Solomon on the Media War Against the American People The American media establishment has launched a major offensive against the option of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. snip The standard media evasions amount to kicking the bloody can down the road. Careful statements about benchmarks and getting tough with the Baghdad government (as with the Saigon government) are markers for a national media discourse that dodges instead of enlivens debate. http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/218/32/ Posted by: Pat C on November 16, 2006 02:18 PMI saw Krishnamurti speak in Bombay in the late '70's one day and the next I saw Ravi Shankar play... those were the days! Looking at the chart for today - I wonder what's going to happen? The Sun is on Scorpio 25: An X-Ray Photograph and it's square Saturn on Leo 25: A Large Camel Crossing the Desert... It will be interesting to see what that square might bring up... more scandal? Seems like Saturn is bringing loads of loads to bear. Posted by: Lynda Hill on November 16, 2006 02:29 PMOh I wish I could have been there Lynda! They are predicting major storms here with winds of 65 mph or more. Yikes. I think the press is destroying itself and it may take quite a bit for it it ever be really effective again. Posted by: Pat C on November 16, 2006 02:39 PMhttp://www.madison.com/bn/index.php?action=this&bn_id=0-107631 Radio station giant Clear Channel Communications agrees to be acquired for about $18.7B Posted by: Pat C on November 16, 2006 03:33 PMhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15737141 Rep. John Murtha defends his ethics "Looking at the chart for today - I wonder what's going to happen? The Sun is on Scorpio 25: An X-Ray Photograph and it's square Saturn on Leo 25: A Large Camel Crossing the Desert..." While I agree that obesity isn't a good thing for a person, does government have any business in regulating it? Europeans OK anti-obesity charter LONDON - European health ministers from 53 countries approved the world's first charter to fight obesity on Thursday, vowing greater action against the epidemic of expanding waistlines across the continent. The charter, approved in Istanbul, Turkey, was drafted by the World Health Organization in consultation with its European member states. It is the first real attempt to compel national authorities to take concrete action to combat obesity. more http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061116/ap_on_he_me/anti_obesity_charter Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 16, 2006 04:58 PMHoyer the winner in a walk-away evidently. I think the count is 149 to 87. Oh boy. Posted by: Pat C on November 16, 2006 05:03 PMLynda, I saw Ravi Shankar play (orchids were spread thruout the audience) at the Monterrey Pop Festival...right after Janis Joplin and Big Brother's set. I never saw Krishnamurti speak, but the night that he died, there was an enormous thunderstorm with rain and lightening galore....the heavens sounded like a gianormous bowling alley. A transpersonal therapist Check out the Fox News memo on Dems that Keith Olberman disclosed...http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Olbermann_Fox_memo_smoking_gun_proof_1116.html Posted by: judigem on November 16, 2006 05:12 PMHoyer won? oh boy is right. This sets up the splitting up of the Dems. Maybe the Dems don't WANT a unified message....or too much power in one person's hands. But at least the vote for Nancy was 100%. Sally was right, Nancy let this all go to her head. As for Bush and his willingness to work with the Dems...HA! he has renominated EVERY rightwinger judge for confirmation AGAIN, plus 6 more, including the scumbag James Rogan from So Cal.... geez. I can't wait till Merc goes direct. Posted by: judigem on November 16, 2006 05:15 PMMurtha will be the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Posted by: Pat C on November 16, 2006 05:58 PMhttp://www.alpenhornnews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=451 "Increased illness linked to mystery powder" Interesting that today is the X-Ray degree de la zodiac! That's my draconic sun. (I'm fascinated with how this chart is supposed to work, and would love to find out more about this tool. Even though I'm a Pisces (the Church Bazaar degree) with a Cancer Moon (the man with the mandala) and Taurus Rising (the porter carrying heavy baggage), I feel somehow like this draconic aspect dropped into my lap for some awesomely karmic reason. The Rising sign degree is 3 Aquarius, the deserter from the navy and the Moon is 6 Aries, the square illuminated on the one side.) Posted by: Richard on November 16, 2006 06:45 PMhttp://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=141003 Will Daddy's Boys Extend the War? No Exit? What It Means to "Salvage U.S. Prestige" in Iraq Posted by: Pat C on November 16, 2006 07:11 PM
Wednesday November 15th 2006, 4:49 pm I just got off the phone with former congressman and talk show host Bob Dornan, who is considering. . . a run for President. “I can’t stand the thought of my party having as its three front-runners three open adulterers, Newt Gingrich, Giuliani, and McCain,” Dornan said. “I’ve got one mission left in me, to come up to New Hampshire and tell the truth, and tell the Republicans you better find yourself a fresh face and not Rudy Giuliani who took his mistress around with him and then divorces Donnna who learns she was divorced sitting at home watching TV with her children. “We need a fresh face if the Republican Party is going to appeal to an Orthodox Jewish, Evangelical or practicing Catholic.” Aside from adultery, Dornan’s other issue is homosexuality, which he called “a cancer in my party.” He said he’d consider backing the right candidate or even running for President himself. “Fifteen hundred bucks (to file for President)? It would be worth it if I could stand in front of a huge audience again and say, folks, is the Republican Party the party of values, the party of life?” Dornan said he’d toyed with the idea of running as the Presidential nominee of the Constitution Party, which holds its New England meeting in Concord on Dec. 1, but is leaning against it after seeing how poorly third parties did in last week’s election. Somehow, I just don’t foresee B-1 Bob leading the Republican Party back to its glory days on an anti-homosexual, anti-adultery platform. But he sure would make the 2008 primary a lot more fun, especially if his nemesis Newt decides to run. It’d be like Steel vs. Iron Man.
Dodd steps up http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_11_12_atrios_archive.html#116370658466158828 DODD: EFFECTIVE TERRORISTS PROSECUTION ACT WILL BRING TERRORISTS TO JUSTICE; HONOR AMERICA’S GOOD NAME Washington- Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), an outspoken opponent of the Military Commission Act of 2006, today introduced legislation which would amend existing law in order to have an effective process for bringing terrorists to justice. This is currently not the case under the Military Commission Act, which will be the subject of endless legal challenges. As important, the bill would also seek to ensure that U.S. servicemen and women are afforded the maximum protection of a strong international legal framework guaranteed by respect for such provisions as the Geneva Conventions and other international standards, and to restore America’s moral authority as the leader in the world in advancing the rule of law. “I take a backseat to no one when it comes to protecting this country from terrorists,” Sen. Dodd said. “But there is a right way to do this and a wrong way to do this. It’s clear the people who perpetrated these horrendous crimes against our country and our people have no moral compass and deserve to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But in taking away their legal rights, the rights first codified in our country’s Constitution, we’re taking away our own moral compass, as well.” The Effective Terrorists Prosecution Act: Restores Habeas Corpus protections to detainees Narrows the definition of unlawful enemy combatant to individuals who directly participate in hostilities against the United States who are not lawful combatants Bars information gained through coercion from being introduced as evidence in trials Empowers military judges to exclude hearsay evidence the deem to be unreliable Authorizes the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to review decisions by the Military commissions Limits the authority of the President to interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions and makes that authority subject to congressional and judicial oversight Provides for expedited judicial review of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to determine the constitutionally of its provisions “We in Congress have our own obligation, to work in a bipartisan way to repair the damage that has been done, to protect our international reputation, to preserve our domestic traditions, and to provide a successful mechanism to improve and enhance the tools required by the global war on terror,” Dodd said. Posted by: Pat C on November 16, 2006 08:05 PMLynda, Sally well done! I especially enjoyed your elaboration on the difference between collective and individual energies. This caught my eye - Oops! They Forgot the Bread! http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/16/144919/91 Also bunch o' virus's in my neck of the woods, I've been tagged in Labor Day, yes I too live in the mountains, hmmm. Posted by: Morgana on November 16, 2006 10:00 PMHey Richard, happy cross-zodiac draconic solar return! My draconic Sun is conjunct your draconic ascendant :) I found that just about all of the Sabian Symbols that weren't in my tropical chart but kept coming up for me as oracles or those that really resonated with me ended up being my draconic placements. This made enormous sense to me when I realised and many things felt like they dropped into place as a result. Raj, what a bummer you missed Krishnamurti! Judigem, great that you saw Ravi Shankar - what a stirring performance he gives and the heavens opening up - that is so interesting - I recently had an email from a friend from Denmark and he was talking about how there had been an enormous storm the moment they were doing a memorial service for a famous Dane, and apparently they never have those kinds of storms... Of subject, but thought I'd drop it in - I went to see Billy Joel the night before last - he was great too! He's such a performer. Posted by: Lynda Hill on November 16, 2006 10:48 PMCrazy Web Claims Pretty Much Confirmed By Newsweek We found this insane story last week about James Baker III shouting down Cheney and Bush 43 (in a fetal position) in some Godfather-style Oval Office takeover meeting right before the election. It was allegedly told by Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe to Chris Matthews during Election Night coverage, live on MSNBC at 4:30 a.m. — of course there are no transcripts, no YouTube evidence, etc. But now that Newsweek has pretty much confirmed the whole story, we might as well repeat it here, after the jump. Wolffe relates that he and a few select Senior media were there when Junior bush received this 1’ thick report/recommendations. 1) Baker informed Junior bush First of all - “EVERYBODY HATES YOU.” This amazed & humbled Junior bush. Baker was NOT alone with Junior bush was confronted with the above issues. Baker - “The people HATE YOU.” Junior bush turned white, the blood leaving his face, turning White - visible drawing up as in FETAL with his hands clasped in his lap. 2)Baker - ” you KNOW your not a leader - Your a Cheerleader.” Those in the room gave a silent - YA you got that right - it’s about time he was told the TRUTH!!! 3) Baker asked for and received a list of his advisors- and MARKED THROUGH those advisors to IGNORE - ALL ADVISORS WERE ELIMINATED AS ADVISORS TO JUNIOR bush. 4)One concession was Rumsfeld - Baker wanted him fired immediately - that waited till after election. 5) Ignore Cheney - Cheney got up at a meeting and flailing arms while espousing what should be done (about Iraq) Junior bush told Cheney VERY FIRLMY to “sit down and be quiet.” After 30 minutes of sitting quietly Cheney left. Nobody has EVER talked to Cheney in this way - ((and lived???)) - HAH!!! 6) 6) Baker informed Junior bush that you WILL negotiate with North Korea! 7) Baker informed Junior bush that you WILL negotiate with Iran. Baker went to Iran - And leader of Iran did NOT want to see Junior bush last monthy when in the USA - but WENT TO HOUSTON TO SEE JAMES BAKER III. Baker sees Iran overseeing Iraq after USA pullout of Iraq! Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 17, 2006 06:29 AMNow this man has some serious issues with the President and seems to have a plan. Richard, the Draconic Chart is what the ancients called the soul or spirit chart and gives clues as to what you want to experience on this life journey. The Spirit doesn't recognize negative so the Draconic chart is not read in the negative at all. If you compare your Draconic chart to your natal chart you will find some clues into your life path. As an example, let's say Draconic Saturn conj. your natal Venus and you find yourself either older when you fall in love, or you have some problems in relationships or your relationships seem to be karmic (there are a number of possibilities) however since it's your Draconic Saturn aspecting your natal planet it acts as a restriction for a reason, it would give you an opportunity to experience or explore other aspects of life and love beside a personal love. That's just an example. Posted by: Sally on November 17, 2006 07:37 AMSally is there somewhere on the web where we can run a draconic chart? .............. http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/224/ Let Lieberman Go; He's an Albatross Posted by: Pat C on November 17, 2006 01:00 PMWe'll be rich in mangos. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/11/16/senate-overwhelmingly-app_n_34309.html Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Bush's Nuclear Deal With India... The Senate gave overwhelming approval late Thursday to President Bush's deal for nuclear cooperation with India, a vote that expressed that a goal of nurturing India as an ally outweighed concerns over the risks of spreading nuclear know-how and bomb-making materials. By a vote of 85 to 12, senators agreed to a program that would allow the United States to send nuclear fuel and technology to India, which has refused to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. More... Posted by: Pat C on November 17, 2006 01:42 PMWe'll be rich in mangos. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/11/16/senate-overwhelmingly-app_n_34309.html Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Bush's Nuclear Deal With India... The Senate gave overwhelming approval late Thursday to President Bush's deal for nuclear cooperation with India, a vote that expressed that a goal of nurturing India as an ally outweighed concerns over the risks of spreading nuclear know-how and bomb-making materials. By a vote of 85 to 12, senators agreed to a program that would allow the United States to send nuclear fuel and technology to India, which has refused to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. More... Posted by: Pat C on November 17, 2006 01:51 PMMedia Matters for today. By the way NBC/GE spent the morning revving up the drum beat for the inept Democrats. There's no rest for the weary...yet. Posted by: Pat C on November 17, 2006 01:52 PMhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/11/16/supreme-court-justice-ali_n_34290.html Supreme Court Justice Alito, Six Other Bush-Nominated Federal Judges Participating In Conservative Federalist Society Convention... Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and a half dozen other federal judges nominated by President Bush are taking part in the Federalist Society's annual convention that began Thursday, a measure of the conservative organization's influence in the nation's legal system. Solicitor General Paul Clement, the Bush administration's lawyer at the Supreme Court, kicked off the meeting Thursday morning with the prediction that with two new Bush-appointed conservative justices, the high court will have ample opportunity in coming years to spell out its views on limited government, a Federalist Society hallmark. More... Posted by: Pat C on November 17, 2006 02:25 PMWatch out! "Our" victory is being turned into a DLC win: I guess shy, when a big shift occurs, jockying for position is inevitable. sigh Posted by: Pat C on November 17, 2006 03:44 PMPosted on Salon, via Atrios: What Greenwald says. Let me just add that the big problem with most of the nominally liberal-leaning elements of our commentariat is that what they need, most of all, is to be the Smartest People in the Room. They don't care about policy and how it impacts people. Digby http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_digbysblog_archive.html#116373868117148083 After a thorough discussion of how hapless the Democratic nerds have already proven to be, Mary Ann Akers whispers that reporters all over town are "loving" this story. It's so much fun! All the kidz squealed like schoolgirls at prospect of the merciless going-over they are preparing to give these totalbigfatlosers. ("We're so not being mean or anything cuz they like totally deserve it cuz they just don't get it, ok?") It's as if all these unpleasant events of the last six years never happened and we are back in the days of endless cable bitch-fests filled with sniggering about unauthorized blow jobs and earth tones and "grown-ups" who eat PB&J's and travel with their favorite pillies. Posted by: Pat C on November 17, 2006 03:56 PMI know the recent above is crap because it equates "giggling losers" with girls & females when it should be dragkings & boyz. It's all propaganda, slathered on thick by the mouthings of the party on its way out. I think I'll just wait to form my own opinion & listen NOT to the dreadful lispings of the collective phobics. Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 17, 2006 04:31 PM
I hope you can all clearly see the direct impact the Mars/Sun/Mercury/Venus/Jupiter conjunction in Scorpio had upon the powerful transformation (Scorpio) directed by an awakened, truth-seeing, and fed up American public on election day Nov. 7, 2006. What a complete joy to watch the American people rise up like a phoenix reborn and speak in one voice to overthrow the morally bankrupt Republican regime in Congress, thereby castrating the power of the White House to set the agenda. I even enjoyed the post-mortem humble pie fest that our President engaged in the following day as he bid farewell to Rummie. This long 6 year bout with powerlessness has come to an end, and once again, in America, we can have faith that when the American people decide to take action, our democratic system actually works in their favor. Let's hope the Democrats stay focused, act positively, and make change happen for the better http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisnewmoon.htm
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1950245,00.html There isn't a place to run up Draconic Charts to mey knowledge Pat C but then I've never really looked for someplace. I used to to them by hand, but then Solar Fire started putting that chart on their program and it's made it much easier. Posted by: Sally on November 17, 2006 05:56 PM
By: Steve Kornacki
http://www.observer.com/20061120/20061120_Steve_Kornacki_politics_wiseguys.asp Posted by: wv on November 17, 2006 06:45 PMI'm amazed at the level of insults and disgusting lewdness the freepers and trolls are slinging around about Nancy Pelosi in places like Huffington Post. I thought I was pretty immune to online insults by now, but mysoginy is alive and rearing it's ugly head. They may be a minority, but what a screeching nails-on-the-blackboard minority it is! Posted by: lunaoscura on November 17, 2006 07:07 PMPat C, I don’t know how many of you checked out the UCLA student tasering video I posted yesterday but it was horrifying and this is even worse. Filmed by another student in more detail about just how badly the entire situation was handled by the UCLA police who are NOT rent-a-cops by the way. Talk about abuse of power and using that Patriot Act madness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7zlJx9u2E&mode=related&search= Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 17, 2006 07:21 PMI’d like to know what d-r-u-gs this man is on and take some myself. His world is such a nice one! Rumsfeld’s Additional Accomplishments By Al Kamen Seemed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had barely left his Oval Office firing ceremony when the Pentagon Web site popped up with a new feature titled “Six Years of Accomplishments” with Rummy. First and foremost were his accomplishments in the “war on terror,” where overall, military efforts “liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.” More specifically, they’ve “liberated 31 million Afghans from Taliban control and destroyed Al-Qaeda sanctuary.” And they’ve “liberated 27 million Iraqis from a brutal dictatorship and turned over sovereignty of the country to an Iraqi government.” more http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111601429.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 17, 2006 07:22 PM
- Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer
(11-17) 04:00 PST Crescent City, Del Norte County -- Earl Hensel rushed to the Crescent City Harbor just in time to see water gushing in from the sea, sweeping away everything in its path. The most devastating tidal wave to hit the California coast in four decades washed away docks, damaged boats and spread debris all over the harbor. Hensel was relieved that his own boat was spared Wednesday, but the next day he could not get one thing out of his mind as he and a dozen other fishermen mulled over the damage inside the harbor. "They say there was a warning call, but there was no siren or general alarm," said Hensel, who is in his 80s. "It's a pretty somber group here looking at the damage." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/17/MNG58MET2P1.DTL&type=printable Posted by: wv on November 17, 2006 07:36 PM
- Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau
(11-17) 04:00 PST Washington -- Beneath their sunny expressions of unity, there's a potentially disruptive volcano simmering for speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi's House Democrats. Among the 230 or so Democrats already assured of seats in the party's new majority, there are conservative "Blue Dog Democrats," moderate, pro-business "New Democrats" and liberals gathered in the Progressive Caucus. Each faction has its own legislative prescriptions for the country's major problems, and each claims that the party's victory in this month's midterm election was a mandate for its point of view. Yet all pledge loyalty to Pelosi, who, since taking over as House Democratic leader in 2002, has placed a premium on unity in her caucus and now wants to move forward rapidly on an ambitious initial legislative agenda that all factions indicate they will support. After that, however, the differences could push to the surface. "Republicans did not lose their seats to liberal Democrats. They lost them to Blue Dog Democrats, to conservative Democrats,'' said Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., a leader of the Blue Dogs, who formed saying that Democratic leaders had shut out their conservative views while the party lost their House majority in 1994. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/17/MNG7VMELL71.DTL&type=printable Posted by: wv on November 17, 2006 07:40 PM
- Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer
Problems in California's fledgling tsunami warning system were exposed in its response to Wednesday's Pacific tsunami, which unleashed waves that wreaked hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage in Crescent City. "There are bugs that need to be worked out," said Allen Winogradov, emergency services coordinator for Del Norte County, whose coastal community of Crescent City suffered the most damage from the tsunami. Such bugs aren't unexpected in a complicated warning system as new as this one. The state Office of Emergency Services began beefing up its tsunami warning network after the devastating Indonesian earthquake-tsunami in 2004 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/17/MNG58MET1L1.DTL&type=printable Fiore on Demoglad... http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/ Posted by: WV on November 17, 2006 08:40 PMPat C, I worry that repugs will drag Pelosi and any dem they can find to minimize their accomplishments, degrade them and drag them thru the gutter as they have always done the last 12 years and side-track whatever is sane and genuine Now, i get it. The election just didnt seem right to me. The polls were SOOOO favorable to Dems and then most of the races turned out very close. In fact i read somewhere that it was just a matter of 5000 votes going the other way in selected races. The same thing in 04. We probably won in 04 by the kind of margin we won in 06, and 06, in fact, was probably a landslide. See article in Raw Story: Hate to say this guys, but Pelosi's move to control the majority leader vote didnt seem to be good politics to me. She should have removed herself from the center and let the dems vote. It was a secret ballot. Her method of control is to mete out favors and punishment to those who go along with her or who thwart her. In a secret ballot she doesnt know who her friends or foes are. She is in no better place now than she was at the beginning and arguably in a more vulnerable one now that she backed the losing horse. What was she thinking. We campaigned on 2 big issues that resonated with the electorate: ethics and the war. If she backed Murtha, he was good on war but had ethics issues; if she backed Hoyer, he was Bush's guy on the war but no ethics issues. Neither of these guys reflected the electorate's views. Neither one was a good choice. She should have stayed out of it. You know, pick your battles. Posted by: on November 17, 2006 10:08 PMNancy on Starlightnews says Hoyer has good transits now but that they'll be difficult soon and through 2007, and that although Murtha's are not so great now he will have very good transit in 2007 and be enjoying a lot of popularity. So it looks like Nancy picked her battle very well because everyone will remember she picked Murtha. It's politics, not a baseball game. Winning and losing are all relative. Posted by: lunaoscura on November 17, 2006 10:59 PMDon't bet that Nancy doesn't know who voted for whom. Those idiots just can't keep a secret. She'll know. Hey, she's a woman, a mother and a wife - she'll know. Trust me! Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 17, 2006 11:12 PMCIA Acknowledges Bush Signed Directive Drip, drip, drip….the facts are coming out… Unfortunately, the MSM doesn't seem as concerned with the exposure of the truth as much as the lying denials they received from the Bush Administration some months ago, nor question why the CIA didn't make this acknowledgement until after the election. more http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/11/17/cia-acknowledges-bush-signed-directive/ Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 17, 2006 11:42 PMpat b, I think they have already started, and we'll see if the audience is awake. I'm hoping the ear plugs are out and that the letters are flying to all those corporate media propaganda "artists". Pat QOP, I've never understood why Carville married Mary Madmouth. He use to be a really good guy. Over the years, he has disintegrated badly. Thank you Sally. I'm really interested in Draconic charts. I'd like to find a place since my system can't use Solar Fire. Posted by: Pat C on November 17, 2006 11:49 PMPat C - Here's a site that was listed here a few threads back for Draconian Astrology. I haven't used it yet but I'm wanting to. Sounds totally fascinating. http://www.mysticempowerment.com/draconic.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 17, 2006 11:56 PMCarville has turned from a funny and sharp pink bald man to a piece of nasty dessicated liver. I lay the blame on Mary Madmouth, at least partly. I couldn't believe what I was hearing when he was dissing Dean. The new issue of The Mountain Astrologer has some pretty interesting political articles.... Posted by: judigem on November 18, 2006 12:18 AMThank you Shadowhawk! Judi, I love your description of Carville. And BTW, I got the quinoa. Posted by: Pat C on November 18, 2006 12:25 AMSo what did Uncle Milty Friedman contribute to our immersion in the brutal monetary policies he wrote? check out the article, because it is eye opening... War Room - Salon Reid vows legislation on robo-calls, phony sample ballot http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061114-8223.html Electronic voting: the silent catastrophe Posted by: Pat C on November 18, 2006 12:30 AMSally, I've only just read the first paragraph of your quintessential rendering of the word "peace", and I think you've just about covered everyone's definition of the word. Mine would be "crawling into bed after a hectic day and the sheets are clean and fresh". Oh...after a hard day's work, and a warm shower, it's the closest thing to heaven. Posted by: Crystal on November 18, 2006 01:06 AMWell said Sally. I myself don't care for Schumer. I've heard him speak about Arabs, and Muslims on several occasions, and I can say without reservation, that he is a bigot, so I usually tune out whenever he speaks. As for the Bushes, don't much care for them either, and in my opinion the apple did not fall far from the tree. It's just that the tree accomplished its evil doings by employing diplomatic tactics, while the poisoned apple, on the other hand, does it by bullying, and brute force. Posted by: Crystal on November 18, 2006 01:49 AMThis was posted on Salon by Robert. A stirring award acceptance speech was given last month by the author Ursula K. LeGuin: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/MCGrayFellowship-Speech.html "There have been governments that celebrated literature, but most governments dislike it, justly suspecting that all their power and glory will soon be forgotten unless some wretched, powerless liberal in the basement is writing it down. Of course they do their best to police the basement, but it's hard, because Government and Literature, even when they share a palace, exist on different moral planes. Each is the ghost in the other's bedroom. A government can silence writers easily, yet Literature always escapes its control. Literature cannot control a government; poets, as poets, do not legislate. What they can do is set minds free of the control of any tyrant or demagogue and his lies and disinformation." Posted by: Pat C on November 18, 2006 03:53 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! and may you have many, many more. Posted by: wv on November 18, 2006 03:58 AMThey showd the 2nd tasering by UCLA police on CNN tonight. But Pat, the good news is, it is going to really suck to be Laura Ingram. It's sort of like a no calorie desert, so to speak. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/17/1532/6273 Posted by: Pat C on November 18, 2006 04:25 AMLadies and Gentlemen, it's time to rejoice. Mercury is direct and in two days Uranus will be direct. From November 20 to Dec. 5th, every single planet will be direct. Brace yourself, one thing about retrogrades they do slow things down and give time for evaluation and careful thought. When planets are all direct it's like being on a rollercoaster that simply won't stop long enough to let you grab hold. Long awaited plans suddenly happen, long held dreams are suddenly right there at your doorstep. It's a "get ready set and go" period. Chaos personified, some good, some not so good but always one hell of a ride. Watch out for people on the road there will be a tendency for all of us to do things too fast and perhaps not look where we are going. All planets direct isn't terribly rare, but it doesn't happen often either so make the most of it, it could be kind of like that ad on TV where things are done is double time. Posted by: Sally on November 18, 2006 08:21 AMYES! FINALLY! IT'S CAP'N SALLY'S BIRTHDAY!!! Once a year we celebrate And the whole clan gathers round Happy birthday! So let's drink to your fading health Does it feel like you're doing laps Happy birthday! If cryogenics were all free But instead your time is set Happy birthday! Happy birthday to you! Love y'all Yes, yes, yes, Happy Birthday Sally!!!! Looks like we are in for a ride with all of the direct planets. Hmmmm....Does this mean I'll get to Denver faster today??? Hahaha... Or will my vacation go too fast??? Noooooo.....I hope not! Posted by: Cybear on November 18, 2006 12:41 PMThat's good Garry! Posted by: Cybear on November 18, 2006 12:42 PMYes, Happy Birthday, Sally! Just to make it memorable, Garry is going to sing the Arrogant Worms song backward. Right, Garry? :)By the way, great lyrics. Sally, People who have birthdays live longer (a bumpersticker I once saw). Posted by: lunaoscura on November 18, 2006 02:27 PMGarry, love the song it's perfect and thank you everyone for your generous wishes. I love my birthdays and you're just taking it from great and terrific to fantastic. Thank you. Well Cybear, the planets don't all go direct until the 20th of November and if you're coming this weekend it will give you a chance to settle in a bit before a whirlwind vacation. Posted by: Sally on November 18, 2006 02:37 PMHAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALLY!!!!!!!! Posted by: Peg on November 18, 2006 02:42 PMHappy Birthday!!! Posted by: Betsy on November 18, 2006 03:19 PMHappy Birthday Sally!!! Thank You for being you, and for everything you do. *cheers* Posted by: Shez Spiriteye on November 18, 2006 03:35 PMAnd I'll join in the chorus! Oh that song from Garry is the best! But I'm old, so here is the old version. http://www.clayz.com/happybd.html HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALLY! CELEBRATE! Posted by: Pat C on November 18, 2006 03:56 PM
A Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives ...by Michael Moore
I know you are dismayed and disheartened at the results of last week's election. You're worried that the country is heading toward a very bad place you don't want it to go. Your 12-year Republican Revolution has ended with so much yet to do, so many promises left unfulfilled. You are in a funk, and I understand. Well, cheer up, my friends! Do not despair. I have good news for you. I, and the millions of others who are now in charge with our Democratic Congress, have a pledge we would like to make to you, a list of promises that we offer you because we value you as our fellow Americans. You deserve to know what we plan to do with our newfound power -- and, to be specific, what we will do to you and for you. Thus, here is our Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives: Dear Conservatives and Republicans, I, and my fellow signatories, hereby make these promises to you: 1. We will always respect you for your conservative beliefs. We will never, ever, call you "unpatriotic" simply because you disagree with us. In fact, we encourage you to dissent and disagree with us. 2. We will let you marry whomever you want, even when some of us consider your behavior to be "different" or "immoral." Who you marry is none of our business. Love and be in love -- it's a wonderful gift. 3. We will not spend your grandchildren's money on our personal whims or to enrich our friends. It's your checkbook, too, and we will balance it for you. 4. When we soon bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq, we will bring your sons and daughters home, too. They deserve to live. We promise never to send your kids off to war based on either a mistake or a lie. http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/print.php?id=201 Posted by: wv on November 18, 2006 04:53 PMHappy Birthday, Sally! Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 18, 2006 05:12 PMhttp://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#2 Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 Posted by: Pat C on November 18, 2006 07:12 PMHappy Birthday, Sally! and many more. Posted by: Teresa on November 18, 2006 07:57 PMJust chiming in belatedly, Sally, with my very best wishes for perfect health, delirious happiness, abundant prosperity and an infinity of blessings. Happy Birthday & Many More! Sharon (Gary, I really dig the Arrogant Worms song - love to know the tune but I don't download music.) Posted by: Sharon on November 18, 2006 09:00 PMhere's the official B-day horoscopes for fixed signs thia year: This quality of fixity, of never changing his/her mind, applies equally to Scorpio, Taurus and Leo. These are the "fixed" signs: stubborn, loyal. They hate change and disruption; they want to live their lives in an unchanging groove. Yet if any of these signs are unloved in a relationship, they can wander: Leo for romance, Taurus for a fleeting sensuality, and Scorpio for deep, binding sex. In the year ahead, Aquarius will re-discover his/her coterie of friends, and make many new ones. Single Leos will discover true love, and could fall madly in. Scorpio will make money, and Taurus will "grow" something, depending on his/her situation in life - most will welcome a baby (pregnancy) a new lifestyle, growth of net worth, and/or a deeply sexual relationship. For all signs, this December and 2007 represent a culmination of the past 12 years - for most, a lucky, expansive culmination that can solve a decade-long problem, or finally put a decade-long effort over the top and lead it to success. Whatever has been most mysterious to us during the past 12 years, will now admit us to its secrets and shine a light on them. Many books will be published on the subconscious, fate, and physics. Large new sources of oil will be found. A new political manifesto will be announced, and be embodied by a nation's new government by 2008: soon (2008-2024) it will spread to alter or undermine governments around the world.
Happy Birthday Sally!!!! Age: There are some political articles in the December edition of Vanity Fair about Bush, the White House, and one devoted exclusively to Rove. There's even a picture of Rove with his wife. I was at the beauty salon, so I didn't get to read much of it. He is described as a "split personality" and the author discusses how his experiences growing up account for it. Looks like good reading if you can get hold of a copy. Posted by: Crystal on November 19, 2006 01:59 AMHere you go Crystal. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/rove200612?printable=true¤tPage=all Karl Rove's Split Personality
Red State Babylon Posted by: Pat C on November 19, 2006 02:31 AMThe quickening pace of things seems to include this horror, too, Cap'n Sally: How much more hideous stuff will come out over the next few weeks? Reprehensible! Posted by: shylurker on November 19, 2006 02:48 AMCongress to probe UK's claims on Iraq uranium British intelligence reports on Saddam Hussein's alleged efforts to buy uranium ore from Niger will be at the centre of new American investigations into the Iraq war by the newly elected Democrat-run Congress. The inquiries will re-open uncomfortable questions for Tony Blair about the information, passed by Britain to Washington. It formed part of President George W. Bush's case to Congress for going to war — despite a key source for the intelligence having since been discredited. Two incoming Democrat chairmen of powerful committees told The Sunday Telegraph that the information that Iraq was seeking so-called "yellowcake" for a suspected nuclear weapons programme — a claim that Mr Bush put at the heart of his justification for the war — would be crucial to their investigations. Senator Carl Levin, a long-time critic of the handling of pre-war intelligence who will head the Senate's Armed Forces Committee, said: "I want the Niger yellowcake affair to be explored in all its inglorious aspects … including the British role." In the House of Representatives, Henry Waxman, who will run the Committee on Government Reform, said: "Any investigation into the intelligence that got us into the war should look at all the sources and that includes foreign sources. The yellowcake documents that said Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium were totally fake. We need to understand how that became part of the package that misled this country to war." Mr Waxman's committee is one of the most powerful on Capitol Hill, with a wide-ranging brief to oversee government activities. Other committees are expected to investigate the matter as part of their inquiries into the war. MORE! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/19/wirq19.xml Posted by: Pat C on November 19, 2006 03:19 AMCap'n Sally, I have given this some thought (yeah, I know, but I'm still capable of it from time to time). If health, happiness, wealth and joy for one's upcoming year is guaranteed by the sheer volume of birthday wishes made, we've hit this one out of the ballpark for you. Happy Birthday yet once again! Posted by: shylurker on November 19, 2006 03:36 AMOMG, I'm on overload here. Garry, please rescue me: If nothing else, Rove is one very pathological individual. Seems almost like someone who should appear in Batman's Rogue's Gallery. This is the one thing that disgusts me about politics in Washington, more than anything else. People detach themselves from their jobs in a way that seems to absolve (in their own minds) themselves from realizing and/or understanding the full consequences of their policies and actions. Or else -- and probably more likely -- they simply don't care. Real People suffer and die, while Rove and Donna Brazille do lunch and laugh about polls and smear tactics during the last campaign. As if it were all a mere joke. And people actually wonder why we can't get out of Iraq. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 19, 2006 06:22 AMHear! Hear!, NEOB. While I haven't a clue about this kind of astrology, I rather like the forecast: Hersh: CIA Analysis Finds Iran Not Developing Nuclear Weapons http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/061119034024.d010tlyg.html A classifed draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, according to an advance copy of a report in The New Yorker by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Posted by: Pat C on November 19, 2006 03:21 PMNeobuckeye, http://phoenixwoman.blogspot.com/ (Links within text) Shame
On Thursday, the janitors staged a sit-down strike to call attention to their cause and put pressure on the employers to make them a decent offer. Mounted police trampled the protestors and then arrested them. Two of the protestors, including an 83-year-old woman, were hospitalized. Many others were injured. In jail, they were abused and harassed by the guards. Bail has been set prohibitively high. One of the more shameful aspects of the police officers' abuse of the protestors is that the House police are unionized themselves, but they don't hesitate to attack people for organizing. Here is the police union's email address. You Know What To Do. Posted by: Pat C on November 19, 2006 03:51 PMHappy belated birthday Sally - Sorry, I didn't have a chance to log on yesterday. I hope you had a great day. Posted by: abilene on November 19, 2006 03:52 PM
By Robert Parry The Nov. 7 elections took the wind out of the blowhard sails that had been driving the United States toward the shoals of endless war abroad and authoritarianism at home. But the ship of state still finds itself buffeted in very stormy seas, with a safe harbor far beyond the horizon. The question now is what to do next? How does the nation maneuver out of the dangerous predicament in the Middle East? And what will it take to ensure that the country is not so easily commandeered again and piloted back toward disaster? First, it’s important to recognize some of the key reasons why the American voters were able to wrest at least some control of the nation’s helm from the motley crew of neoconservative ideologues, political operatives and war profiteers who have dominated George W. Bush’s administration. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/111706.html Posted by: wv on November 19, 2006 04:36 PM
By Peter Baker The weekend after the statue of Saddam Hussein fell, Kenneth Adelman and a couple of other promoters of the Iraq war gathered at Vice President Cheney's residence to celebrate. The invasion had been the "cakewalk" Adelman predicted. Cheney and his guests raised their glasses, toasting President Bush and victory. "It was a euphoric moment," Adelman recalled. Forty-three months later, the cakewalk looks more like a death march, and Adelman has broken with the Bush team. He had an angry falling-out with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld this fall. He and Cheney are no longer on speaking terms. And he believes that "the president is ultimately responsible" for what Adelman now calls "the debacle that was Iraq." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/18/AR2006111801076_pf.html Posted by: wv on November 19, 2006 05:40 PM
It’s Not the Democrats Who Are Divided By FRANK RICH Right now the capital is entranced by a fictional story line about the Democrats. As this narrative goes, the party’s sweep of Congress was more or less an accident. The victory had little to do with the Democrats’ actual beliefs and was instead solely the result of President Bush’s unpopularity and a cunning backroom stunt by the campaign Machiavellis, Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel, to enlist a smattering of “conservative” candidates to run in red states. In this retelling of the 2006 election, the signature race took place in Montana, where the victor was a gun-toting farmer with a flattop haircut: i.e., a Democrat in Republican drag. And now the party is deeply divided as its old liberals and new conservatives converge on Capitol Hill to slug it out. http://select.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/opinion/19rich.html?hp=&pagewanted=print Posted by: wv on November 19, 2006 05:42 PMThanks Pat C for the links to the Vanity Fair articles. Posted by: Crystal on November 19, 2006 06:05 PMYour're most welcome Crystal. Posted by: Pat C on November 19, 2006 08:15 PMThe fight is on, again. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, says the Defense Threat Reduction Agency told him the Divine Strake test explosion of 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil will take place at the Nevada Test Site. After public outcry and legal machinations, the test, which was to have taken place last summer at the NTS, was rerouted first to a gravel quarry in Indiana, then to White Sands, N.M. and now it's back in southern Nevada. http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/3190 This isn't the neocons, its the DOD! "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it." (Dwight David Eisenhower) Hillary to head Senate Environmental Panel. Posted by: Pat C on November 19, 2006 09:58 PM
By Agence France-Presse A classified draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, a top US investigative reporter said on Saturday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15674.htm === Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more? By Seymour M. Hersh The United States does not want to go into Iran, but, if Israel feels more and more cornered, there may be no other choice." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15679.htm Posted by: wv on November 20, 2006 12:57 AM
A FORMER Iraqi prime minister who is tipped to return as a "strongman" leader if Baghdad's faltering government falls has challenged the American-led coalition's objective of creating a western-style democracy even though the country is in turmoil. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2460035,00.html === Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6226157,00.html Posted by: wv on November 20, 2006 01:00 AMThis book could explain a lot about the malaise in the world today. But I think also that those of us here, for instance, have grown out of this problem. I might just have to get it. Bloodthirsty B-i-t-c-hes and Pious P-i-m-ps of Power Generalized hate often has a narrow base. It’s easy to hate gays if one can’t find a job that pays more than the minimum starvation wage. It’s easy to jump on the patriotic band wagon to blow the h-e-l-l out of half the innocent people in Iraq if one has, in effect, been blown to some sort of economic h-e-l-l and is equally innocent. When people feel hurt they hurt back. more Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 20, 2006 02:31 AMSyria offers Iraq support amid new violence Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:16pm ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Syria's foreign minister offered Iraq's government support against militants in a ground-breaking visit to Baghdad on Sunday, as a suicide bombing and the kidnap of a top official added heat to sectarian frictions. Talk is growing in Washington that President George W. Bush may approach its regional adversaries Syria and Iran to help in efforts to quell an incipient civil war that has left 140,000 U.S. troops with little immediate prospect of going home. But on the first trip by a Syrian minister since Saddam Hussein was overthrown -- and a rare visit by any senior Sunni Arab official to U.S.-occupied Iraq -- Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem stressed he was not coming to please foreign powers and repeated Damascus's position that American forces should go. "I'm not coming to Iraq to satisfy some other person," he told a news briefing with his Iraqi counterpart Hoshiyar Zebari. Saying Syria condemned "terrorism", he added: "We support the elected government and national reconciliation ... We support the unity of Iraq and think that a timetable for pulling out U.S. occupation forces from Iraq will reduce violence." Posted by: Pat C on November 20, 2006 03:01 AM.Shadowhawk, http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/19/21654/343 FL-13: “Machines Don’t Make Mistakes” Meet Kathy Dent. She’s the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections in Florida. And she’s doing everything she can to prevent election reform. Earlier this year, election reform groups gathered enough signatures to place a voter-verified paper trail measure on the Sarasota County ballot. Dent, along with other Florida election officials, voiced great opposition to the measure, and they all went to court to have the measure thrown out. The judge in the case sided with election reform groups, and the measure was allowed to go before the voters of Sarasota County. The voters approved the measure. Grudgingly, Dent has now agreed to switch the county to paper ballots. But paper ballots are for the next election. It’s the machines from this election that are still causing headaches in Florida’s 13th district. As I noted earlier today, after a recount, Republican Vern Buchanan leads Democrat Christine Jennings by 369 votes. The conflict centers around some 18,000 “undervotes,” which may be the result of poor ballot layout, or machine error, or, as Dent contends, a pissed-off electorate that chose to skip the hottest race in the county this time around. Yes, for Dent, it’s blame the voter, and only the voter for this anomalous situation. The machines? They operated perfectly. Or at least that’s what Dent will be reporting: Those offical results will be certified by the state Monday, and will be followed by a 10-day contest period. More… Posted by: Pat C on November 20, 2006 03:47 AMMaybe if the elite's kids had to go to war, there would be fewer wars? Eliminate deferments for anything but severe physical problems and it might be fairer and ALL of age would have to serve. Top Democrat: Bring back the draft WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 if the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has his way. New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel said Sunday he sees his idea as a way to deter politicians from launching wars. He believes a draft would bolster U.S. troop levels that are currently insufficient to cover potential future action in Iran, North Korea and Iraq. "There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft, and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way," Rangel said. Rangel, a veteran of the Korean War who has unsuccessfully sponsored legislation on conscription in the past, said he will propose a measure early next year. In 2003, he proposed a draft covering people age 18 to 26. This year, he offered a plan to mandate military service for men and women between age 18 and 42. It went nowhere in the Republican-led Congress. more http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/19/rangel.draft.ap/index.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 20, 2006 06:20 AMHappy happy belated birthday Sally. Sending you warm thoughts from this part of the globe and hope you had a FABULOUS day!! Slate’s newspaper summary w links re Iraq: The Washington Post leads with the first clues on how a Pentagon review might recommend improving the situation in Iraq. Members of the review group have identified three basic options, which have been dubbed "Go Big," (send more troops) "Go Long," (reduce the number of troops but stay longer) and "Go Home" (pull out). The Los Angeles Times leads with a look at how an Army manual is being modified to take into account the failures in Iraq. The Wall Street Journal tops its worldwide newsbox with news that Syria's foreign minister visited Iraq and pledged to support the country's efforts to end the violence. The minister also emphasized the United States should set a timetable for withdrawal. The Pentagon's study of the situation in Iraq is allegedly independent from other efforts by the White House and the bipartisan Iraq Study Group. According to the anonymous military officials who spoke with the Post's Thomas Ricks, the Pentagon panel is likely to recommend a combination of "Go Big" and "Go Long," which would mean increasing the U.S. troops in Iraq by 20,000 to 30,000 for a short period of time, coupled with a long-term commitment to training Iraqi forces. One U.S. official called the mixture, "Go Big But Short While Transitioning to Go Long." After the short-term increase in troops, the plan would call for a reduction of as many as 60,000 troops. There are several potential problems with the plan, including that it seems to go against the expressed wishes of many Democrats in Congress who want to get out of Iraq ASAP. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's tactic of using a small, agile force had been praised a few years ago, but the revised manual will emphasize the need to take into account the security of the local population, as well as military victory. Critics of the way the Iraq invasion was carried out, say the insurgency was allowed to grow when U.S. troops did not take care of the civilian population after urban battles. In the old manual, combat came first, and then "stability operations" would follow. But the new manual will point out the need to support civilians, even while major combat is still ongoing. More... http://www.slate.com/id/2154141/?nav=fix Posted by: Pat C on November 20, 2006 02:27 PMGreat piece from Lynda Hill on the new Moon. http://sabiansymbols.typepad.com/ Posted by: Pat C on November 20, 2006 02:28 PMHappy Birthday Lynda!!! Posted by: Pat C on November 20, 2006 03:01 PMFun article on this New Moon's Sabian All planets are direct today until Dec. 6th. Should be a very busy time, no rest here for the weary or is it no rest for the wicked. Either way we will all be jumping into the holidays. Posted by: Sally on November 20, 2006 03:56 PMIMPEACHIN UR DOODZ http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2006/11/08/pelosi-is-in-teh-hizouse/ Posted by: Pat C on November 20, 2006 06:39 PMThanks Sally and PatC Happy Birthday Lynda, Whooo-hooo, even the Clintons have dumped on Carville: Guess there's some karmic justice/adjustment in the planetary acceleration also, huh? Posted by: shylurker on November 21, 2006 01:56 AMBobby Kennedy would have been 81 today. America has yet to recover from his murder, or the murder of his brother, JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., and other leaders who tried to divert us from the hate-filled, greed-driven and blood-stained path upon which this nation has walked since the end of World War II (and we could certainly argue for a time well before that). Conspiracies abound concerning the circumstances and parties involved in RFK's death. But now, new light may have shone upon another piece of the puzzle. -- Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy? At first, it seems an open-and-shut case. On June 5 1968, Robert Kennedy wins the California Democratic primary and is set to challenge Richard Nixon for the White House. After midnight, he finishes his victory speech at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles and is shaking hands with kitchen staff in a crowded pantry when 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan steps down from a tray-stacker with a "sick, villainous smile" on his face and starts firing at Kennedy with an eight-shot revolver. As Kennedy lies dying on the pantry floor, Sirhan is arrested as the lone assassin. He carries the motive in his shirt-pocket (a clipping about Kennedy's plans to sell bombers to Israel) and notebooks at his house seem to incriminate him. But the autopsy report suggests Sirhan could not have fired the shots that killed Kennedy. Witnesses place Sirhan's gun several feet in front of Kennedy, but the fatal bullet is fired from one inch behind. And more bullet-holes are found in the pantry than Sirhan's gun can hold, suggesting a second gunman is involved. Sirhan's notebooks show a bizarre series of "automatic writing" - "RFK must die RFK must be killed - Robert F Kennedy must be assassinated before 5 June 68" - and even under hypnosis, he has never been able to remember shooting Kennedy. He recalls "being led into a dark place by a girl who wanted coffee", then being choked by an angry mob. Defence psychiatrists conclude he was in a trance at the time of the shooting and leading psychiatrists suggest he may have be a hypnotically programmed assassin. Three years ago, I started writing a screenplay about the assassination of Robert Kennedy, caught up in a strange tale of second guns and "Manchurian candidates" (as the movie termed brainwashed assassins). As I researched the case, I uncovered new video and photographic evidence suggesting that three senior CIA operatives were behind the killing. I did not buy the official ending that Sirhan acted alone, and started dipping into the nether-world of "assassination research", crossing paths with David Sanchez Morales, a fearsome Yaqui Indian. Morales was a legendary figure in CIA covert operations. According to close associate Tom Clines, if you saw Morales walking down the street in a Latin American capital, you knew a coup was about to happen. When the subject of the Kennedys came up in a late-night session with friends in 1973, Morales launched into a tirade that finished: "I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard." From this line grew my odyssey into the spook world of the 60s and the secrets behind the death of Bobby Kennedy. more at: Kiwijeanie, how great to hear from you and thanks for your "down-under" warm thoughts. I trust the temperature is warm there. I did have a great birthday and Lynda, you are right with Saturn and Neptune squaring Scorpio it has kind of dampened the Jupiter effect, but I figure without Jupiter it might have been worse. We'll see as Neptune and Saturn continue to square without Jupiter around to smooth things over a bit. Posted by: Sally on November 21, 2006 07:11 AMhttp://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009246 Class Struggle BY JIM WEBB Posted by: Pat C on November 21, 2006 08:32 PMHooray! Astonishing! ...as to what these two whiney pink boyz think they're entitled. Lil whiney princey boyz, two lil warty pickles, two lil landmines, two lil killer jerks... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_defending_bush Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 22, 2006 12:15 AMHere! here! JoannaO Posted by: Crystal on November 22, 2006 01:47 AMAmerica sure has made a mess in Iraq. Now they are leaving it for the Iraqis to clean up! Posted by: Crystal on November 22, 2006 01:56 AMWell, I have 0 deg. of Scorpio rising, so I say, Lynda and Sally, sorry I missed your birthdays, but I've been hiding with the blinds closed and shuttered for almost a month. Been sleeping 12 hrs a day...couldn't figure it out until yesterday when I opened the blinds (my entire apt is floor to ceiling glass sliding doors) yesterday. You know...when the sun went into Sag. I feel like a new person. I never really experienced the 'scorpio' affect like this one....I guess it was all the planets there....but I'm one NOT sorry Scorpio rising, Gemini sun to see Sag on the scene. Belated happy birthdays to all... Posted by: judigem on November 22, 2006 02:09 AMWinning hearts and minds yet again: * Mothers Rally to Back Breast-Feeding Rights http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/21/AR2006112101316.html Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 22, 2006 04:32 AMNow this is interesting. U.S. Retreat from Iraq? The Secret Story According to credible Iraqi sources in London and Amman, a secret story of America's diplomatic exit strategy from Iraq is rapidly unfolding. The key events include: First, James Baker told one of Saddam Hussein's lawyers that Tariq Aziz, former deputy prime minister, would be released from detention by the end of this year, in hope that he will negotiate with the US on behalf of the Baath Party leadership. more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/us-retreat-from-iraq-t_b_34675.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 22, 2006 06:12 AMUCLA Taser man The UCLA police officer videotaped last week using a Taser gun on a student also shot a homeless man at a campus study hall room three years ago and was earlier recommended for dismissal in connection with an alleged assault on fraternity row, authorities said…. In May 1990, he was accused of using his nightstick to choke someone who was hanging out on a Saturday in front of a UCLA fraternity. more http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/11/21/ucla-taser-man/ Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 22, 2006 06:53 AMBelated birthday greetings Sally from the kiwiscot in Godzone. Been thinking about Daddy B coming to the little B's assistance. As we're all aware it's Saturn that sends the signals if the time is right. What I find particularly interesting is that as in many cases. A dynamic at a personal level resonates with something happening at the cosmic level. For instance we're aware of the present, and for some time Saturn/Neptune dynamic. Ah yes the lessons of Saturn or ignorance of same. By the way no recent posts because of all the election hype. Also the more I read about Barack Obama the more I like. Given the huge changes coming up in a few years time. I've got the feeling, if the powers that be will let him. He could be "Cometh the hour, cometh the man." Sally I do believe you've previously posted his birth data. Any chance of a reminder? Posted by: Stan on November 22, 2006 08:44 AMplease send me good vibes you wonderful people, for today I will be representing myself in court over a lawsuit that stems back 7 years. Thank you! here's my chart today:http://www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi?nhor=1&nho2=20&btyp=245&mth=gw&hsy=&zod=&sday=22&smon=11&syr=2006&rs=&orbp=&cid=tvcfilecLzhAq-u972229359&lang=e&gm=a1&ast= Posted by: Peg on November 22, 2006 04:18 PMI think there is more and more of a longing for another John/Bobby Kennedy/Martin Luther King-esque leader. How long has it been since each of those men were shot down at a time when the nation and the world truly needed their continued guidance and leadership? Of the three, I think the murder of Bobby Kennedy stings the greatest, although it may not be as apparent (as with JFK and MLK). He seemed to have reached a real turning point in his perspective, and despite his shortcomings and whatever dark shadows surrounded him, seemed intent on taking the country down a very different path as President. That apparently scared "somebody", and they sought to put a stop to him before he ever had the chance. How far we as a nation have fallen in four decades time? Now, instead of the Kennedys, King and their hope, optimism and call for social responsibility, to be better than ourselves and aim for new heights, we have... the Bushes... and their irresponsible, self-serving and vainglorious do-nothingness and regressivism. Nothing they do benefits anyone. No one... but themselves. The Presidency is just a title to them, and they smugly and pretentiously act like they are some unofficial royal family, and everyone is supposed to give them royal deference and admiration of some kind. And then there is Cheney, whose twisted, Palpatine-remniscent face looks like the very epitome of greed and lust for power run amok. Or me, Me, ME! At all and any cost. Doesn't give a damn about anyone. And judging by his health history, really not even himself. Of course, for these individuals to even be in power now is merely symptomatic of much deeper ills within our society, ills that have been with us for many, many years. But now it has become so severe, like a full-blown sickness that it is all spilling out into the open. Where did we go wrong? It is said that our leaders are merely just a reflection of ourselves. I don't know about you, but I am very disgusted with the reflection that I see in the mirror. But rather than throw my hands up into the air in disgust, or break the mirror, I'd like to get to the absolute root of the disease and terminate it. There is certainly a deep and dark force behind the events that shaped this country, at least as far as I can tell, since World War II, and probably earlier, though their power has grown tremendously since the end of World War II with the institutionalization of the Military-Industrial Complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned us about. The 1960s to me represents a major, heated chapter in the battle between the light and the shadows, change and public, widespread progress vs. status quo and regressive, elite-serving power-consolidation tactics. We are arriving at the setting of the next chapter now, which will play out throughout the next 10 years. And while every chapter is a turning point in our direction and future, the stakes are higher now than they've ever been. Our planet is sick, and getting sicker. Hundreds of thousands of people die each day of needless, often violent deaths. Millions more suffer when their is no justifiable need. The people in the shadows profit from all this misery, violence, death and destruction. If humanity is to survive, this setup must change, and change dramatically. I would very, very much like to see us -- the people -- collectively go for the jugular and cut off the men in the shadows from their source of power, be it money, oil, and/or whatever it is that is the driving force behind their power. From that perspective, we will need many, many JFKs, RFKs, MLKs. Each of us will have to be leaders and do what is necessary to abolish the power elites and establish a new way and outlook that can and will heal humanity and our planet. Of course, it wouldn't hurt to have an Al Gore or a Barak Obama... the latter if he has or reaches a true point of awakening. But we can not long afford to wait for a new leader to arrive. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 22, 2006 04:25 PMGreat success to you Pet!! You are surrounded in violet light. .......... From Judith: This reminds me of how women who are moms get things done. Roll up your sleeves just like Rosie the Rivetter, crack the whip and hop to it because there’s no time like the present to get it done. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=11168 Pelosi to Convene House January 4 Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi will open the House for the first session of the 110th Congress on January 4, and keep it in session for the first several weeks of January. While that may not sound remarkable outside-the-beltway, it is departure from tradition that is certain to prompt some teeth gnashing among Republicans. Congress typically convenes the first week of January after a holiday recess just long enough for new members to be sworn in, and then promptly adjourns until the president’s State of the Union Address toward the end of the month. Pelosi’s team apparently figures there’s no reason to allow President Bush to set the agenda in January by leaking bits of his speech. Instead the Democratic Congress will immediately plunge into its lengthy to-do list, starting with an ethics reform package, and perhaps have some bills on Bush’s desk by the time the State of the Union is ready for delivery. “From economic security to national security, the American people have resoundingly called for a new direction,’’ Pelosi said in a just-released statement. “It is imperative that we waste no time in addressing the pressing needs facing our nation.’‘ Posted by: Pat C on November 22, 2006 05:11 PMMAY YOUR STUFFING BE TASTY, MAY YOUR TURKEY BE PLUMP. For those who won't be online tomorrow! :-) Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 22, 2006 05:43 PMShadowhawk, the UCLA thing is like dejavu all over again....I lived in LA in the 60's and my roomate went to UCLA (she was at the Ambassador Hotel when Bobby was shot, an eyewitness who worked on his campaign)....during the Kent State period of time, UCLA sent their cops out against students (she was there in that also, she ended up at the center of much of the 60's protests as an activist). It was the zeitgeist of the time...kill all the students. Non were killed at UCLA that time, but that was the response from the establishment then.....send in the cops. I think sending in the clowns would have worked better. It will be 42 years from 1968 in 2010....expect that it ought to be interesting in the way that Uranian transits can be. Will Kumbaya become the national anthem then? hahahahah Posted by: judigem on November 22, 2006 06:05 PMNEo..you wrote (I agree): And then there is Cheney, whose twisted, Palpatine-remniscent face looks like the very epitome of greed and lust for power run amok. If thought is everything then it's very interesting that so many people are being reminded and thinking about the 60s right now. Like all consciousness altering societal movements there are times when action is manifested outwardly and times when the movement seems to go dormant. I wonder if we aren't coming to the time when the cycle will manifest outwardly again. I hope it won't be violent. I hope it will be consciously anti-violent. Posted by: lunaoscura on November 22, 2006 06:19 PMhttp://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/293201_amy22.html Rumsfeld and a mountain of misery By AMY GOODMAN Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist, began life as a slave on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. When his owner had trouble with the young, unruly slave, Douglass was sent to Edward Covey, a notorious “slave breaker.” Covey’s plantation, where physical and psychological torture were standard, was called Mount Misery. Douglass eventually fought back, escaped to the North and went on to change the world. Today Mount Misery is owned by Donald Rumsfeld, the outgoing secretary of defense. It is ironic that this notorious plantation run by a practiced torturer would now be owned by Rumsfeld, himself accused as the man principally responsible for the U.S. military’s program of torture and detention. More…. Posted by: Pat C on November 22, 2006 06:35 PMHappy Thanksgiving for a hopeful democracy! http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1037101876409 Posted by: on November 22, 2006 07:13 PMhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/20/AR2006112001233_pf.html Democrats Plan Series of Votes on Ethics Reforms Democratic leaders are still putting the finishing touches on the floor schedule and some of the components of the ethics package, said Jennifer Crider, spokeswoman for incoming House speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.). But other Democratic leadership aides said the proposal to break up the package and reassemble it is virtually a done deal. JudiG I often wonder if the 60's weren't a training ground for where we find ourselves today. The UCLA clip, my son and husband refused to let me watch it (they correctly surmised I would go ape shit), I caught it on KO anyway, just lost it. It reminded me how very angry I was in the 60's over Kent State, and Vietnam, the assination of the Kennedy brothers. I think I am angrier today. And now we are grown up, pay back time. Today is the 43rd anniversary of JFK's assasination. Posted by: Teresa on November 22, 2006 09:27 PMHope this is a sign of the times. Posted by: Pat C on November 22, 2006 09:53 PMHappy Tofurkey Day Everyone! Hey Linda, ps, cute poem Shadowhawk Posted by: bhakti on November 22, 2006 10:27 PMthank you Pat C. I didn't lose. But I didn't win. The judge ordered the case "too complicated" for him to render summary judgment. At least the "other" lawyer (lol) was put on notice that I'm not done yet- I may be arguing this case in front of the Illinois Appellate Court in Springfield soon- oh my God, I never even finished college!!! But I do thank you very much for your help with the violet light; every little bit counts. Posted by: Peg on November 22, 2006 10:31 PMWow Peg! I want you to win!!! Posted by: Pat C on November 22, 2006 10:47 PMHere's a fine tribute! A Message From John Fitzgerald Kennedy On November 22, 2006 My fellow Americans: On November 22 four decades ago I left you, and for those of you who think of me, let me ask a http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/3307 Look at this clueless, irrelevant, vapid child that has been dubed "president" and you will at once understand that we the people are not allowed to have leaders. It really began quite a while back! Thanksgiving The National day of Mourning When Frank James (1923 - February 20, 2001), known to the Wampanoag people as Wampsutta, was invited to speak by the Commonwealth of Massachusettsat the 1970 annual Thanksgiving feast at Plymouth. When the text of Mr. James’ speech, a powerful statement of anger at the history of oppression of the Native people of America, became known before the event, the Commonwealth "disinvited" him. Wampsutta was not prepared to have his speech revised by the Pilgrims. He left the dinner and the ceremonies and went to the hill near the statue of the Massasoit, who as the leader of the Wampanoags when the Pilgrims landed in their territory. There overlooking Plymouth Harbor, he looked at the replica of the Mayflower. It was there that he gave his speech that was to be given to the Pilgrims and their guests. There eight or ten Indians and their supporters listened in indignation as Frank talked of the takeover of the Wampanoag tradition, culture, religion, and land. http://www.blackcommentator.com/207/207_day_of_mourning_wampsutta.html QOP Posted by: on November 23, 2006 04:20 AMPeg, I took a look at your chart and I am glad you have a bit more time on this, it works well in your favor and you will win it, so don't freak out that you didn't finish school. It doesn't matter the energy will be in your favor. Neo, I love your description of Cheney, it's so literary and well said. I just call him Egor. PatQOP, I saw that letter on Buzzflash and cried. Thanks for posting it. Like Morgana, it amazes me how raw and open a wound the 60's are for me, it takes so little to remind me of the loss and pain I felt with JFK, MLK, RFK, the anger over Kent State, the violence of the Civil Rights Movement, the War, the war, the war. People talk about FDR and WWII, we talk about Truman, Eisenhower, Johnston, Nixon and on and on, but when you start talking about JFK I've noticed that people just kind of fall silent and look off into a nameless distance. Who were the Kennedy brothers, JFK and RFK and what promise did they hold for us? The promise must have been great because we are still longing and looking for the hope and vision they held out. Even younger generations resonate to the words of the Kennedy's just as we resonated as they were violently thrust into the wound that never seems to heal. Posted by: Sally on November 23, 2006 06:27 AMI know, I WILL!! win it Sally. I just know I will. I don't know how long the process is going to take, or what curves lay ahead, but I can handle it. Thanks so much for glancing at my chart. I had hoped to be sending you a b-day present this week, but maybe it'll be Christmas now instead. Happy Thanksgiving ya'll!!! Posted by: Peg on November 23, 2006 10:24 AM1234 Posted by: on November 23, 2006 04:45 PM'Bush doesn't think America should be an actual place' PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Bush believes America should be more of an idea than an actual place, a Republican congressman told WND in an exclusive interview. "People have to understand what we're talking about here. The president of the United States is an internationalist," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. "He is going to do what he can to create a place where the idea of America is just that – it's an idea. It's not an actual place defined by borders. I mean this is where this guy is really going." Tancredo lashed out at the White House's lack of action in securing U.S. borders, and said efforts to merge the U.S. with both Mexico and Canada is not a fantasy. "I know this is dramatic – or maybe somebody would say overly dramatic – but I'm telling you, that everything I see leads me to believe that this whole idea of the North American Union, it's not something that just is written about by right-wing fringe kooks. It is something in the head of the president of the United States, the president of Mexico, I think the prime minister of Canada buys into it. ... "And they would just tell you, 'Well, sure, it's a natural thing. It's part of the great globalization ... of the economy.' They assume it's a natural, evolutionary event that's going to occur here. I hope they're wrong and I'm going to try my best to make sure they're wrong. But I'm telling you the tide is great. The tide is moving in their direction. We have to say that." Cont. at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53023 Posted by: Pat C on November 23, 2006 04:48 PMWishing all a Happy Thanksgiving! Remember, dwelling on the negatives in the world only reinforces it's continuation. Focusing on the positive brings more of the same. Let go of the past and the future will change for the better. Live in the past and you will continue to be trapped in Samsara or the never ending cycle of the same old same old. Namaste Posted by: Cybear on November 23, 2006 05:12 PMMorgana, Sally, and all the rest who were traumatized by the 60's political realities, yes...payback time will come. I am sure of it. And the movie by Emilio Estevez about Bobby is going to help....it is getting rave reviews. Those days (JFK, MLK, and RFK to Vietnam and Kent State, the shootings -massacre really- of the college students in Mexico City and of course, Chicago in I think the next few years will be instructive. I still picture the wizened neocons on trial for war crimes...wizened from the stuffing getting knocked out of them...will they all emigrate somewhere like the Nazis did to South America?
Yup GHWB owns a chunk of Paraquay as does Moon and Bush girl just purchased a chunk for her daddy. Bingo JudiG. Posted by: Morgana on November 23, 2006 08:19 PMSally, You have expressed exactly how I feel about 11/22/63! and killings following! I hope the younger ones read that article, up here they don't seem to have a clue of what the've lost! They're swollowing the kool-ade about "youth are the future of our country".....yada,yada.......... BBC Claims CIA Involvement in RFK Assassination http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112306A.shtml New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy's assassination has been brought to light. The evidence was shown in a report by Shane O'Sullivan, broadcast on BBC Newsnight. It reveals that the operatives and four unidentified associates were at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles in the moments before and after the shooting on 5 June, 1968. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR2006112201940.html New Democratic Majority Roils Lobbying Industry The Democrats’ takeover of Congress this month has turned official Washington upside down. Labor and environmental representatives, once also-rans in congressional influence, are meeting frequently with Capitol Hill’s incoming Democratic leaders. Corporations that once boasted about their Republican ties are busily hiring Democratic lobbyists. And industries worried about reprisals from the new Democrats-in-charge, especially the pharmaceutical industry, are sending out woe-is-me memos and hoping their GOP connections will protect them in the crunch. Posted by: Pat C on November 24, 2006 12:05 AMJust saw the movie, "Bobby." This country hasn't learned a thing since 1968. So sad to see what could have been. Stunning that we haven't felt hope in six years. Posted by: Mark on November 24, 2006 06:12 AMI'm sure many of you have seen this, but I thought I'd post it here. It's George Galloway - he said it all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdFFCnYtbk I arrived in my present incarnation 10 years after Bobby Kennedy was killed. I started reading the newspaper editorials about 10 years after that -- when Bush Sr was running for president. Didn't take me long from there to start asking questions and wondering why so many adults would resign themselves to voting for such a weak, uninspiring and insipid man? (Though truthfully, Dukakis was only marginally better.) Where were the really good leaders? I still remember reading and hearing stories about Martin Luther King, President Kennedy and of the hope they inspired in so many people back during the 1960s, particularly about the changes that King fought for within the Civil Rights movement, for equality among both black people and white people. But also of the hope that President Kennedy was somehow able to convey and inspire in people, about the future and building to reach... the Moon! I remember feeling sad when learning of their untimely deaths. Even though I was very young, I somehow realized that there was a great void left in their wake, and that the country had never really been the same since. Who would want to kill a man who was trying to do good things for people? I don't remember my Mom's exact words in response to that question, but I'm certain she said something to the effect of "people who are scared". Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 24, 2006 10:28 AMOne of my all time favorite quotes: "Some people see things as they are, and ask, why? I dream things that never were and ask, why not?" -- Robert F. Kennedy Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 24, 2006 10:29 AM
Neobuckeye, QOP Posted by: on November 24, 2006 11:19 AMhttp://donkeyod.blogspot.com/2006/11/when-votes-disappear-by-paul-krugman.html FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2006 ........... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/23/AR2006112300965.html An Electronic Canary Thank you Lynda, I wonder where he is now? He gave me heart at the time, and I hope he is well and happy in his own life. Posted by: Pat C on November 24, 2006 01:32 PMSenate Democrats Revive Demand for Classified Data Seeking information about detention of terrorism suspects, abuse of detainees and government secrecy, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reviving dozens of demands for classified documents that until now have been rebuffed or ignored by the Justice Department and other agencies. We were so beautiful and the world was so ugly. This is for you NEOB, et al. Posted by: shylurker on November 24, 2006 03:58 PMWhat a blessing and wonderment to get up and always have access to this site and Starlight News. I can;t believe that I don't actually "know" any of you. Steve Judd was in a muliple car accident and he's in the hospital recovering. http://www.stevejudd.com/home.html If you want to drop him a line wishing him well, here's his email steve@stevejudd.com Posted by: lunaoscura on November 24, 2006 04:30 PMSome things of beauty to behold: It makes you wonder if the people of Iraq can survive that long. What exactly constitutes 'civil war' if what is going now isn't called that. "Sectarian violence' is the same thing, isn't it. Assault on Iraqi Civilians Is Deadliest Since 2003 snip One lawmaker allied with Sadr, however, said he and others would withdraw their support from Maliki unless he cancels a scheduled meeting next week with President Bush in protest of the decaying security situation, the Associated Press reported. Sadr's support is critical to Maliki's government. more http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112400203_pf.html And as a P.S. US forces have now engaged in Sadr City and the violence is escalating even further. Just how much more can a people stand? Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 24, 2006 05:42 PM
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Benny Ziffer The tired and confused group of new-immigrant families from India were shown on the Tuesday evening news arriving at Ben-Gurion Airport, waving Israeli flags and singing "Heveinu Shalom Aleichem." The authenticity of their descent from the Biblical tribe of Menasseh is comparable to mine from Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, or from Snow White's Seven Dwarfs. It transpires that this fantasy of a newly-discovered Jewish diaspora, lost for 2,700 years, is being realized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, an organization with a Jewish proselytizing whiff about it. Its representatives, with their strongly American-accented Hebrew, appeared all week on television, with the scary smiles of fanatics with whom no discussion of their religion is possible. Another Step Into the Dark Ages In August, under the guise of fiscal responsibility, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency began closing most of its research libraries, both to the public and to its own staff. The EPA's professional staff objected strongly, insisting that closing the libraries would hamstring them in their jobs. In a letter to Congress protesting the closures, public employees said, "We believe that this budget cut is just one of many Bush administration initiatives to reduce the effectiveness of the US Environmental Protection Agency, and to continue to demoralize its employees." [..]Closing the EPA libraries is the perfect symbol to characterize the methods of the Bush administration. Since 2000, the Republicans have cemented their reputation as ushers of a new dark age. They have sought to shroud the light of science by closing libraries and by suppressing scientific reports. They have gagged their own scientists and persecuted whistleblowers. They have cloaked government in secrecy, a prime example being Dick Cheney's secret meetings with oil companies to draft an industry-friendly national energy policy. But that era is now winding down. Read on… http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/11/24/another-step-into-the-dark-ages/ Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 24, 2006 06:31 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/ Posted by: wv on November 24, 2006 07:39 PMSomebody tell Dick "Dick" Cheney that we seem to have turned another corner in Eye-Rack: Who wants to bet on the likelihood that they have plans for the evacuation of the Green Zone, at a minimal cost in casualties? It just gets ghastlier and ghastlier. What a hopeless, deranged mess! Posted by: shylurker on November 25, 2006 12:49 AMWonder if all them dumb ambitious young republican operatives... kids of monied older ambitious republicans... are still in the Green Zone... you know, pounding away on their typewriters, churning out Big Plans for the fate of the Iraqi Peoples... how all that oil money will fill pocketses of said ambitious republicans, with their kids in the Green Zone. ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 25, 2006 03:39 AM...or their kids in them 14+ superduper delux ameriCO military bases in said Iraq. Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 25, 2006 03:42 AMI'm reminded of the film "Gandi" where the Indians had finally had enuf of the bossy, greedy, resource guzzling Brits... who were squatting where THEY didn't belong either... & who suddenly rode over every last squatter's stolen squatting place, slaughtering every last pink supremacist man, woman & child, using their haids for croquet balls... probably. Not a happy ending. Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 25, 2006 03:52 AMThis is a concern since we owe most of the world money and if they decide to dump the dollar or call in their markers, we be in deep doo-doo! Dollar Falls as Concerns Grow About Economy The dollar dropped sharply against a broad range of major currencies today, and the euro broke through the $1.30 mark for the first time in a year and a half, highlighting concern about the strength of the American economy. The dollar’s losses came during a thin trading day in which the British pound rose to its strongest value against the dollar in two years. The Japanese yen and the Swiss franc also gained at the dollar’s expense. more Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 25, 2006 05:18 AM* Where Plan A Left [freak] Ahmad Chalabi http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/magazine/05CHALABI.html?ei=5070&en=9a2980ef8f74affe&ex=1164603600&adxnnl=0&adxnnlx=1164432035-Nae78ZyXAQxjns3B2Ws5Uw&pagewanted=all Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 25, 2006 05:36 AMHey folks new article up shortly. Happy Sleepin Weekend after sleepin Day and Turkey day. Posted by: Morgana on November 25, 2006 05:03 PM* Ranking the Senators SurveyUSA released its latest approval ratings for all 100 US Senators. Of current [necroporn]-held seats up for re-election in 2008, 5 senators have approval ratings below 50%: Sen Wayne Allard (R-CO), 44% Of the Dem-held seats up in 2008, just two have below 50% ratings: Sen Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), 39% http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/11/24/ranking_the_senators.html Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 25, 2006 11:45 PMhttp://www.squidoo.com/telechargerfr/ Post a comment
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